Kind of bothers me.

It sort of bothers me when people call my kayak a canoe. It's like calling a pickup truck a car.

Get used to it.

Get used to it.

+1

I just spent two weeks explaining to the folks we are taking out on HEROS I the Water that we are going in Kayaks. And they still ask "can the canoes sink?"

Are they the same in the non kayaking world? I don't get it.

How about when people say "oar" and "row" instead of paddle? 

I'm pretty sure in the UK among other parts of the world, kayak and canoe are essentially interchangable terms. Sometimes I hear and refer to kayaks as "boats"...its all semantics

At first my wife called the paddle an oar. Lol

How did you get to "sand dab" level so quickly is the question.

The worm canoe just sounds so uncool... lol... Gets me every time!!!

Floating banana is the worst name I've heard.

Floating banana is the worst name I've heard.

Better than sinking banana

Good news! My truck is fixed. Bad fuel pump

How about when people say "oar" and "row" instead of paddle? 

I'm pretty sure in the UK among other parts of the world, kayak and canoe are essentially interchangable terms. Sometimes I hear and refer to kayaks as "boats"...its all semantics

I sometimes call my kayak a "boat" but never a canoe

When she was ~3 years old, my oldest pronounced it "Kai-hack". It stuck. 5 years on I still go Kai-hacking.

When she was ~3 years old, my oldest pronounced it "Kai-hack". It stuck. 5 years on I still go Kai-hacking.

Whenever i would drink my boy would say uncle hall instead of alcohol 

I grew up paddling canoes and I bought my first canoe when I was 15 years old and it was great until I traded it for a kayak back in 2005. No big deal to me if people don't know any better- kind of like the difference between football and soccer...