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As a proud Minnesotan, I still have trouble reading "binder" as a three-ring notebook. I still call rubber bands binders. One bit of regional language I've never shook off.
As a non-American, I also have trouble reading "binder" as three-ring notebook, since the number of rings doesn't seem that important to me.As a proud Minnesotan, I still have trouble reading "binder" as a three-ring notebook. I still call rubber bands binders. One bit of regional language I've never shook off.
That's interesting. Here in the US (At least where I am in the Midwest) the three-ring variety is the default. If someone asks you to get a binder, you're probably going to assume three-rings. I've seen two-rings, and four-rings, and even six-ring binders, but those are considered odd/specialty. Loose leaf lined paper you'd use in school is typically punched for three-ring binders.As a non-American, I also have trouble reading "binder" as three-ring notebook, since the number of rings doesn't seem that important to me.
Do Americans have a different word for a two-ring binder or a four-ring binder? Two rings is standard where I live, and you can get four-ring ones if you look hard enough, but three-ring ones are unavailable.
No, think most Americans would call them all binders. But the two ring binders just don't seem to be very common here, compared to India, Taiwan, and countries in the Mid-East where I've worked. Getting way off topic, but an even bigger difference I had to get used to is that shelves of binders seem to be the main filing system in many countries. In the US I was so used to file drawers with hanging folders and papers filed loosely into them, that I get very annoyed having to file things in other countries. I thank our internet gods for cloud storage, SharePoint and other digital document-management systems.As a non-American, I also have trouble reading "binder" as three-ring notebook, since the number of rings doesn't seem that important to me.
Do Americans have a different word for a two-ring binder or a four-ring binder? Two rings is standard where I live, and you can get four-ring ones if you look hard enough, but three-ring ones are unavailable.
As someone who still has to file away a lot of paper into filing cabinets...No, think most Americans would call them all binders. But the two ring binders just don't seem to be very common here, compared to India, Taiwan, and countries in the Mid-East where I've worked. Getting way off topic, but an even bigger difference I had to get used to is that shelves of binders seem to be the main filing system in many countries. In the US I was so used to file drawers with hanging folders and papers filed loosely into them, that I get very annoyed having to file things in other countries. I thank our internet gods for cloud storage, SharePoint and other digital document-management systems.