Am I the only one that says teeter totter and not seesaw?

[Polybius]

Whenever I say teeter totter, it brings a smile to all of my friend's faces. It's certainly not an age thing, as I'm in my 40's. I'm also born and raised in NYC, if that matters.

I dunno, to me it just sounds so much better than seesaw.

[ploppy]

1. Teeter totter here!

[iemitsu]

2. I'm 65 and from the Northwest and I call them teeter totters.

[AmyStrange]

25. Yup, I'm originally from the East Coast, now living near Seattle, and...

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SeeSaw seems to be an East Coast thing, although, Teeter Totter makes more sense.

Hmmm... another one is Cellar vs Basement.

East Coasters tend to call them cellars.
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[iemitsu]

26. My grandfolks (farm north of Seattle)

had a root cellar but it was not under the house. It was under the wash house.

[JustGene]

3. teeter totter

[JustGene]

10. see saw

[tblue37]

4. I use both, but as an Air Force brat i lived all around the country. nt

[liberalla]

13. Me too. To using both terms, and being an AF brat stationed in multiple locations.

[abqtommy]

6. Everyone knows they otter say teeter totter. We always see what we saw!

[Atticus]

7. Of course it's a teeter totter. nt

[3catwoman3]

8. I grew up saying teeter totter.

I have used both, but hardly use either now as my “kids” are now 28 and 30, so don’t go to playgrounds anymore.

[Greybnk48]

9. I grew up in and around Philly. It was a see-saw there.

We moved to Wisconsin when I was a young teen and it was a teeter-totter here.

Edited: Had it backwards at first!

[Cycle2016]

11. Teeter Totter I'm 63 from NE Ohio

[Polly Hennessey]

12. Teeter totter for me.

[Mrs. Overall]

14. Teeter totter!

Never say seesaw. Grew up in CA.

[Faux pas]

15. I'm

a teeter totterer

[Phoenix61]

16. No idea what a seesaw is. Played on a teeter totter when I was a kid. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. It's definitely a teeter-totter, always has been.

Old midwesterner here.

[Harker]

18. Teeter totter

since I was a teetering tot.

Born in a western suburb of Chicago in 1959.

[Solly Mack]

19. Seesaw. Georgia.

[lagomorph777]

22. Kennesaw?

And what's it called in Arkansas?

[Solly Mack]

23. Ha

[Codeine]

20. Teeter totter is my default

though I’ve said seesaw as well. The former is much more mellifluous.

[lagomorph777]

21. Same here! Remember that guy Teeter selling the back-board to flip you upside-down?

(supposed to cure back pain). It was impossible for me not to call it a "Teeter Totter."

[IcyPeas]

24. See saw Marjorie Daw

we called it a see-saw - also a NYer.