Do you know what a drop cord is?

[Ernie Nyvall]

Maybe its my manufacturing background, but a drop cord is attached permanently at one end and drops down from the ceiling. An extension cord has a male plug at one end and a female at the other.
Current capacity (as in wire gauge) is immaterial to the nomenclature.

Mike in Michigan

Exactly the same where I was born and raised here in east Texas. Course my mother was born deep in the country here, and my father in MN so I can use you-uns, y'all, or you guys interchangeably.

[Tom Veatch]

I have always heard an extension cord called a drop cord with no light. I had never heard of a drop light.

+1 (from a Louisiana background)

[Belinda Barfield]

I can use you-uns, y'all, or you guys interchangeably.

That's something to be proud of, Ernie. I had not actually heard anyone say "you-uns" until I met my SIL, Brender (spelled Brenda). Of course, she also has beer and 'mater juice for breakfast.

[David Gregory]

Yep, where I grew up in SC we called 'em drop cords too, and drop lights. Though I tend to agree that once a light is dropped, it no longer "lights" so why is it called a "drop light"? Now that I'm older and wiser however, things are making more sense. There's new information regarding so-called "light" bulbs. For your own education, try this link: http://www.btinternet.com/~homepage/dark.htm

[Joe Shinall]

My dad called it a drop cord so much when I was younger, that when I went to work with him as a teenager and a guy at his shop asked for an extension cord, I didn't know what he meant.

A drop light is an extension cord with the light bulb on it.


Southern talk at it's best. Just like pecan and pecon.

[Caspar Hauser]

That's all silly talk.

Extension cable and inspection lamp.

[Jim Rimmer]

That's something to be proud of, Ernie. I had not actually heard anyone say "you-uns" until I met my SIL, Brender (spelled Brenda). Of course, she also has beer and 'mater juice for breakfast.

That proves the theory that dropped letters never go away; they just show up in another part of the country. When Norm says he pahked his truck, the R ends up on the end of your SIL's name, thus Brender.