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Make All Google Again :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cup#Dixie_cups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cup#Dixie_cups As an American, Dixie cups are

Make All Google Again :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cup#Dixie_cups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cup#Dixie_cups As an American, Dixie cups are dixie cups :) I know, that's no answer but that was my intent, I do not think we use the term everyday and prefer to say paper cups, but if someone said "dixie cups" I would not be surprised, just like in some other places you could "xerox" a document instead of "photocopying" it.

deelowe 6y ago
It's ok. The cups aren't named after the Confederate south. Op doesn't know what they are talking about.
dghughes 6y ago
I got a kick out of the inventor's name Lawrence Luellen the last name in particular. I guess people in the US gave up trying to spell the Welsh surname Llywelyn.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  Sounds like the person whose name it was also gave up trying to use Cymraeg, otherwise they'd perhaps be CluEllen. Don't know how long off the boat they were, but often misspellings in UK surnames arise across generations in records. I guess because the family themselves are totally illiterate. Also, IIUC on immigration to USA officials would record your surname on your papers and that became _the_ spelling, so that might also explain it?
- catalogia 6y ago
  I'd guess they gave up on expecting other people to figure out the pronunciation. Probably about a third of the people I meet pronounce my name wrong. It's a bit tiresome, but I wager if my name was Llywelyn it would be even worse.
  - beamatronic 6y ago
    Wasn't there a Doug Llywelyn on the show, The People's Court? Any of us who saw daytime TV in the 1980's know how to pronounce it..
    - catalogia 6y ago
      That was something like 80 years after the invention of the dixie cup though, so I doubt that TV show would have helped anybody in America struggling with explaining the name Llywelyn to other Americans in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The assumption that Americans anglicized their names did so by accident because they were illiterate is just silly. I'm sure that happened sometimes, but loads of people anglicized their names deliberately in an attempt to conform with local expectations. One of my great-great-grandfathers, a literate German speaking immigrant to America, changed his name from Müller to Miller. Why? Well I can't ask him, but probably because it was the thing to do. This sort of thing was very common particularly during that time period. The later means the same thing, sounds about the same, but crucially would be more familiar to anglophone Americans. And Müller is comparably easy. (To be clear, my last name is not Miller; I have an non-anglicized but reasonably common Italian surname.)

deelowe 6y ago

It's ok. The cups aren't named after the Confederate south. Op doesn't know what they are talking about.

dghughes 6y ago

I got a kick out of the inventor's name Lawrence Luellen the last name in particular. I guess people in the US gave up trying to spell the Welsh surname Llywelyn.

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
Sounds like the person whose name it was also gave up trying to use Cymraeg, otherwise they'd perhaps be CluEllen. Don't know how long off the boat they were, but often misspellings in UK surnames arise across generations in records. I guess because the family themselves are totally illiterate. Also, IIUC on immigration to USA officials would record your surname on your papers and that became _the_ spelling, so that might also explain it?
catalogia 6y ago
I'd guess they gave up on expecting other people to figure out the pronunciation. Probably about a third of the people I meet pronounce my name wrong. It's a bit tiresome, but I wager if my name was Llywelyn it would be even worse.
- beamatronic 6y ago
  Wasn't there a Doug Llywelyn on the show, The People's Court? Any of us who saw daytime TV in the 1980's know how to pronounce it..
  - catalogia 6y ago
    That was something like 80 years after the invention of the dixie cup though, so I doubt that TV show would have helped anybody in America struggling with explaining the name Llywelyn to other Americans in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The assumption that Americans anglicized their names did so by accident because they were illiterate is just silly. I'm sure that happened sometimes, but loads of people anglicized their names deliberately in an attempt to conform with local expectations. One of my great-great-grandfathers, a literate German speaking immigrant to America, changed his name from Müller to Miller. Why? Well I can't ask him, but probably because it was the thing to do. This sort of thing was very common particularly during that time period. The later means the same thing, sounds about the same, but crucially would be more familiar to anglophone Americans. And Müller is comparably easy. (To be clear, my last name is not Miller; I have an non-anglicized but reasonably common Italian surname.)