Ginger nuts about this question

[suki_blue]

It became apparant to me very recently that it is uncommon in the States to use the term 'ginger' for someone who has hair the colour of Ron Weasley ~points to icon~ You say 'red', yes?

My question is this, what name would you give to what we in the UK would refer to as a 'ginger tabby cat'?

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0087-0507-1919-3306_SM.jpg

I was going to post a pic of my ginger baby boy, Popcorn, but I can't get my camera or my scanner to work ~grumbles~


And to those of you outside of the UK and the US, what do you call them?

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[princess-pipi.livejournal.com]

Chrm... I'm sorry, I can't help you, but please....

upload a new chapter of Parity Transformations. ;_____; I'm addicted!

Sorry. ^^'

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yay! Glad I've got you hooked!

The next chapter should hopefully be along by the weekend. It would be sooner, but it's an awfully long chapter! :oD

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

My aunt just got one and she calls it an orange tabby. It's a female, too, and quite a lovely one.


Gabrielle

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. Orange. Thanks, luv.

A female? Wow, that's really rare!

[wymsie.livejournal.com]

I'm in the US and I call a ginger cat an "orange tabby" and for humans I use the term "redhead". Hope this helps.

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

That helps loads, thank you! I'd been told that Americans refered to cats the same way as humans, and I just thought it was odd to refer to a cat as a 'redhead'. :oD Orange makes much more sense!

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

I love it when my default icon is entirely appropriate for the conversation. *g*

[lelaina-c.livejournal.com]

That cat looks exactly like my office cat! Only he weighs a lot more. :D

I call it a 'rot getigerte Katze' (red striped cat). As for humans we call them 'rothaarig' (redheaded) or in dialect 'fuchsert' (coloured like a fox).

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Auw, I love chunky cats ;o)

... or in dialect 'fuchsert' (coloured like a fox).

How very cool! This is so interesting!

[frk-werewolf.livejournal.com]

For Ron's hair, we usually say red headed. Though, I used to hang out with the art crowd and they liked to use "specific" color tones (in this case, ginger would be used or some freaky sounding word that no one else understood), but general populace: red.

Another note on the 'ginger' headed thing. I notice those of older generations, like my grandmother's gen, use the term ginger. It's more today's gen that doesn't use it.

As for the cat? That would be an orange tabby or orange tiger cat, like the other's said. However, that's because it's fur color has a yellowish tint to it, if it was more of a reddish tint then it would officially be a red tabby or red tiger cat (tiger because of the stripes).

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wonder why the term died out.

When Ron is written in fanfiction, do the American writers seem to stick with saying 'red' or do they stay with Rowling's description of 'ginger'?

Tiger cat! Wow, that's a cool name. My cat couldn't be any less like a tiger. Hee!

[noneeca.livejournal.com]

in Canada:
ginger-haired person: redhead
ginger cat: orange tabby, or marmalade cat.
cheers!

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

Seconded, also in Canada!

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Auw, marmalade! I think that's my fav. Thanks, hon!

[greenheart8.livejournal.com]

Redhead is the common general term I have also heard the darker red called auburn and the orange-ish redhead called a carrot top.
don't know anything about cats, sorry.

Interesting fact the term 'redheaded step-child' refers to a person that is undesired not so much their hair (although it does anger more if they are redheads). Kind of like a 'blonde' joke although a more crude, I know that my brother used to always say, "beaten like a redheaded step-child" whenever he beat somebody at something.

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is an interesting fact! Which part of the States are you from?

[ficbitca-bear.livejournal.com]

I was going to post a pic of my ginger baby boy, Popcorn, but I can't get my camera or my scanner to work

You were going to scan your cat?!?!

sorry, couldn't resist - you can thwap me now

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

BWEEEEEE! I can't see that attempt going down at all well - not unless I want to lose an eye. Hee!

~thwaps you anyway~

[azurehart.livejournal.com]

Like others have said it is most often referred to as "orange tabby" here in the US. Although all of the orange tabbies I have had have had a more vivid coloring than the one you have linked to.

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks for the info! Orange seems to be the most popular answer. Once I get my camera working again I'll post a pic of my cat to see what colour he's considered to be. He's quite a deep ginger.

[literati.livejournal.com]

In Australia we call people both ginger and red head. As for cats, it's either marmalade, orange or ginger tabby.

*smooch*

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

In Australia we call people both ginger and red head. As for cats, it's either marmalade, orange or ginger tabby.

Ooh, just like here really. I personally think red head is becoming the polite version of ginger. There's nothing wrong with ginger at all, but I do wonder if the term will continue to develop a slightly insulting connotation

Also, oh my dear fuck, your icon is ... is ... ~flails arms~ The hair, the beautiful swishy hair. Did you make it (the icon, not the hair)? Can I have it? If not, do you have a similar one or know where I can get the cap? Is it from Ootp? OMG!! OMG!! It's the diamond of all icons ~praises it~

[slashybits.livejournal.com]

From Australia:

I'd use redhead usually but ginger also depending on the colour of hair for people.

As for cats, definitely ginger. I currently have a ginger and white part persian

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Thank for the info! Wow, it so fascinating to find out all the differences

[vichan.livejournal.com]

See, I automatically associate ginger with... well, ginger. Ginger root. Ginger spice. Gingerbread cookies. Mmmm.
(Finely sliced ginger to go with some sushi.)

NE Ohio - I may not represent the rest of the state, but it seems like everyone in Cleveland/Akron/Kent area talk the same. I sometimes call the cats orange tabbies... but usually they're just plain tabby cats. If they're orange (redheaded), then we call them 'tigers.' Which is incorrect, but hey - when we were getting overwhelmed with feral cats we had to tell them apart somehow. One of the feral kittens running around last year was a real pale orange tabby, and we called him either Underwear or Creamsicle. Yes, we're strange. (His mama was a manx that we called Bunny or Cocktail. Get it? Cocktail? :-D)

_{Sorry. Amusing myself on your comment space. I'll stop now.}

[suki-blue.livejournal.com]

Creamsicle!! LOL! Auw, how cute is that!

I think sometimes people see different colours anyway when they look at cats. One of my close friends dearly wanted a cat so she had my youngest (I'd moved and didn't have as much space and so the cats started falling out with each other). This cat was definitely a cream tabby - very light on the tabby part - but her and her husband say that he's ginger. There's no way!!

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

Well love, it looks like you've got your answer! It's funny but I never heard of the term 'ginger' until there was a South Park episode about it.

Now one of my Dad's co-workers was always going on about rubbing a red head for good luck, which is a version of rubbing an N-Word for good luck. Neither which is nice and I kicked him in the shin at the ripe old age of twelve and told him to stuff it up his ass. Precocious little bugger wasn't I?

The biggest pain in the ass about having red hair, or at least having auburn red hair, is that people always want to touch it. I've had complete strangers come up and try to touch my hair. It's no wonder I hate strangers! Sheesh!

[frk-werewolf.livejournal.com]

The biggest pain in the ass about having red hair, or at least having auburn red hair, is that people always want to touch it.

I can relate. My natural hair color is a very bizzare mix of red, brown, blonde, and a few strands of black. So I ALWAYS have people leaning in all close trying to figure out what color my hair actually is.

And people wonder why I dye it!