What do you call this?

34 comments

1. Pencil parer.

   No idea if that’s how you spell it. I think it’s the first time in my life I’ve written that.

2. Sharpener.

3. Pencil parer

4. A parer

5. Pencil Parer

6. Me from NI call it a sharpener. Other half from Galway calls it a topper.

7. Pencil parer or sharpener

8. A hand operated pencil lathe.

9. Most kids in my school called it a pearer but my brother and I called it a pencil sharpener.

10. Sharpener

11. Pencil Sharpener

12. Sharpener.

13. A jpeg.

14. Pencil sharpener

15. A pointer

16. Parer.

    When I use this anywhere else but in Ireland people give me funny look…. Same goes for rubber

17. Parer or sharpener

18. Sharpener.

19. Pencil sharpener

20. Topper (Tipperary 1990 – 1998)

21. A topper, for topping your pencil

22. I call it a sharpener but a parer is also acceptable.

23. I call it “another word I’ve had to change what I call it because no one outside of Ireland calls it that”

    (Before: pencil pearer…. now: pencil sharpener)

24. Pearer

25. Chipper

26. Parer/sharpener

27. Parer

28. Me: sharpener.
    My MIL: ostrzałka.

29. Topper

30. Pencil parer

31. A 5 minute break with your friends at the bin

32. TOPPER.

33. Topper

34. Topper