What is the term for that big inflatable play area you see at the park, or in your neighbor’s yard? Is it a bouncy house? A jump? Grant asks listeners what they call this modern pumped-up playpen. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bouncy House”
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Having a four-year-old in my house means that I keep encountering words that are different from what I knew when I was a kid.
For example, you no longer really have a playpen, you have a playyard.
Oh, I thought you were going to say an activity center or something.
No, but you know, play, yeah, that kind of language is one thing.
But the one that really interests me is bouncy house or bouncy castle.
Some people just call it a jump, right?
Did you know that there were a lot of different words for this?
These are these big inflatable play areas.
Sometimes they actually look like a castle.
Sometimes they look like a comic book figure.
Maybe they have a slide.
Maybe you just get in them and there’s netting and you jump around.
Lots of them.
I’m picturing you doing this.
But I call them bouncy houses.
And so I just wanted to throw the word out, the question out to the listeners.
What do you call those gigantic inflatable play areas?
You know, you might find them at a fair or a circus, or you might rent them for a big party, right?
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