Has anyone noticed fewer people say “mow” the grass?

mindeloman: Has anyone noticed fewer people say “mow” the grass?
It seems like everyone says, “cut the grass” now. As a kid I never heard anyone say cut the grass. What’s weird is the machine that cuts the grass is still called a lawnmower. Eventually, it may be called a grass cutter. Like when walmart called christmas trees “holiday trees” but that’s a seperate issue.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Tommy
nope

Answer by A C
Lol, so true, just shows how the world is changing, but I suppose, that’s life… things change hehe

Answer by OSCAR
No. People up this way say “mow the lawn” rather than “mow the grass”

Answer by Jay L
I still mow the grass, but sometimes I just cut it

Answer by bookish
The “holiday tree” thing isn’t just a separate issue, it’s an entirely different issue altogether.
I think people said “cut the grass” when I was young, and I’m in my 50s–but I think we usually said “mow the lawn.” This could be a regional thing, or, more likely, with the appalling vocabulary skills of the average American, many people may not know what the word “mow” means. It’s also a somewhat older word that doesn’t get used much anymore–at this point, you only hear it related to lawns, or sometimes to a car accident (“The car mowed down three pedestrians.”)

Answer by Jake No Chat
Before I munch the carpet, I do like to trim the bushes. Anyway that you say it, it it understood by the great masses of the intelligent society out there. Just like being “bad” is now a good thing.

Answer by T
I live in an Apt. and we have a guy named jose mow and cut the grass