American asking other Americans: does anyone actually use the word “blinker” anymore?

20 comments

1. Turn signal, blinker, whatever.

   It’s that thing that BMW drivers don’t use.

2. I think blinker is still a valid word

3. Yeah sure. I do. NJ.

4. I only call it a blinker. From the northeast

5. I don’t.

6. Use yah fahkin blinkah!

   But no, I call it directional.

7. I use it. TX

8. Yep, still use it.

9. I think that it’s probably regional. I just say turn signal.

10. I thought the Brits called it a “Blinky Blinky Don’t Just Winky?”

11. It’s where you put the blinker juice.

12. What’s a blinkah?

13. I hear it all the time here in New England. Mostly it is pronounced blinkah.

14. Yes absolutely. That’s what it’s called.

15. I’ve called it a blinker my whole life.

16. Yea i do. That’s what I call turn signals

17. Growing up In Massachusetts I have never heard it be called anything other than blinker

18. CT here, we say blinker.

19. I’ve used it interchangeably with turn signal.

20. Yes some of say blinker…at least here in Michigan.