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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 08:57:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   A 78 rpm shellac record is in Swedish called a "stenkaka", a "stone cake", because it was brittle and if you dropped it on the floor it was likely to shatter.

   When I look this up on Google, DeepL and Wiktionary there seems to be no "street English" for these records, they're just called grammophone records.

   Is there really no common term in English for shellac records that is not just "shellac record" or "those grammophone records we had before vinyl"?

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 15:12:43 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke As old as I am, I have never actually seen a 78 rpm record. It was just an unused option on record players.
      
      Which is a long way to say that I barely even knew they weren't vinyl, so I never heard any special terminology for them.