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Just one of those things that come up in conversation in the MAXXX household
What do YOU call it? Crayon or coloured pencil - or something else?
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We're posh and have both. Coloured pencils are just that, pencils with a coloured 'lead'. Crayons are the wax things that get trodden into the good carpets and can never be fully removed.
veni bibi saltavi
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I agree.
Except I don't have any good carpets.
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That's my take, too (although we don't have carpets, living in a posh Queenslander with wooden floorboards, but Mrs. Maxxx called them crayons in her youth, not coloured pencils.
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I wouldn't want to be the one to tell her she's wrong - good luck !
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I would say something about being uncouth, but taking into account that you're too far south, that would be considered socially insensitive. 
veni bibi saltavi
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I seem to remember my mother calling them both something along the lines of [snip - Decency Police]. It took sometime for my youthful self to work out that that was the only name of crayons/pencils when used to create impromptu murals in the living room!
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I've known coloured pencils to also be called 'pencil crayons' but never just 'crayons', which are the waxy things.
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Crayons were always the coloured wax.
Pencil crayons or coloured pencils were interchangeable terms for the wood encased coloured 'lead'.
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'something else'
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In English, in my experience, a crayon is a wax pencil (TM crayola) wrapped in paper and a pencil is a led core encased in wood (black or colored).
In french, crayon can be both led (and colored) pencil and if you want to specify was, then it is a "wax crayon" (crayon de cire)
I'd rather be phishing!
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The ones that the dog eats are crayons, the ones that the cat eat are the colored pencils. In either case the gastric after effects are somewhat colorful. 
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They're completely different things. These[^] are colored pencils and these[^] are crayons. Colored pencils are made out of graphite ("lead"), while crayons are made from a wax based material.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Colored pencils are made out of graphite ("lead")
I think you forgot the joke icon. Either that or you're thinking of ordinary grey-leads.
How It's made - Colored Pencils[^]
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Thanks! I did not know that. 
/ravi
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Weapons of colored wax destruction?
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It depends on which I'm talking about; the two are entirely different products. Crayons are wax-based markers which carry colorants, while colored pencils are more like chalk, as in sintered, finely powdered colorants. No relation.
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No she said first a Gibson then a Fender…
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Don't get too strung out. 
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I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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It's nothing to fret about
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I think we're a chord on this subject.
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I hoped I wasn't sticking my neck out too far
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We really could do with Les of these pun threads...
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