Is it normal to get annoyed when people call it a crank call not a prank call

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I have heard people use both terms in reference to ringing someone anonymously and making a joke of it. I surely have hahaha good times. It shits me to hear it called a Crank call and when a television show called Crank Callers came out it threw me way off track and made me question my own beliefs. Can a few people please clarify this for me.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Not normal. Crank. Prank. Who cares? The spirit behind the word doesn't change so why are you getting your pannies in a bunch?

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  • hellostrangers
    12 years ago

    I don't like "crank" either. It sounds irritatingly wrong, and what is worse, it makes me wonder if everyone I have known (including myself) has been wrong calling it a "prank" call.

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  • skinnyjeans
    13 years ago

    I'm just like u I hate the term crank call it sound like someone trying to use a really old telephone

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  • Ldizzy1234
    13 years ago

    The first time I heard somebody say crank, was when I was like 10 watching full house. DJ said it, and I remember saying to my mom, "She said it wrong! It's not crank it's prank!", and my mom told me that it can be said either way. I still prefer prank over crank.

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    I think crank came first too and then slowly morphed into prank. They both sound right to me.

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  • wigsplitz
    13 years ago

    Crank definitely came first so....

    I think it's because you know what prank means easily but you don't (or didn't) know how "crank" made sense so you felt more comfortable with "prank".

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  • HSVWHO
    13 years ago

    I hate it when people say done it not did
    It.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I done it once. I dont get why people find it so fun its boring.

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  • DaydreamBeliever
    13 years ago

    Oh, I agree with you.

    Crank call just sounds aggravatingly wrong.

    But prank call is what I grew up knowing it as, so maybe it's just my ignorance or stuck-up view that i'm not accepting this imposter of a phrase.

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  • aussiewolf
    13 years ago

    so i take it that you havent seen Crank Yankers?? funniest shit!!

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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    It's both. I believe crank came first.

    Crank: A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.

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