Same. Also Australian. The second one is definitely what we would call that. My initial thought looking at the first one was, I dunno - I guess it's a type of plastic sleeve.
Not a native living in london
never had to refer to these things in a conversation but I would call them "page sleeve" or "plastic sleeve" too (even before reading your comment)
definitely would take me a while to understand "sheet protector" out of context tho
It actually took me a minute to think of it, but that's what I came up with too. (Now also mountain west USA, but I went to college in the mid-south, and that's likely the last time I even thought about one of these things....)
I’d call what you referenced “mattress protectors,” although I’ve heard older people call them “rubber sheets,” which always sounded to me like it was trying to describe a literal top sheet made of rubber, which isn’t what they are.
American here. Just a heads up- these are not as commonly used in the US as they are in other places in the world, so there’s not a unified name to call them. Sheet protectors is what I would say.
>these are not as commonly used in the US as they are in other places in the world
I'm an American living in Munich. Germans fucking love these things. They can't get enough of them.
I'm american and use them all the time. The packaging states "sheet protectors", so that's what I call them as well. I would know what someone was saying if they said page protectors though.
I'd say page protectors. You have to use them in grade school, or I did anyway. Outside of that I've never thought they were neccessary. I either tape over with packing tape if it's at home or use the laminator if it's at work.
I call it a clear file, but that's because they call them that in Japan (クリアファイル *kuriafairu*) and I collect Japanese ones with images of my favorite J-pop groups and singers on them.
Same in some variants of Indian English.
We use these for when we don't wanna staple papers together but wanna keep them relatively organized. They're often called "project folders" or "plastic folders" as well.
Same— I call them clear files, but before I lived in Japan I wouldn’t have even had a specific word for it because they’re not so common in America. Probably would have said either a page protector or sheet protector.
US. I thought you were joking! I haven’t heard this item called that in the States. This is what I think of when I hear “poly pocket.” https://shop.mattel.com/collections/polly-pocket
I'd call them a poly pocket too, (North East England) but when I said it to a colleague,a few months ago they had never heard them called that and called them a plastic wallet!
Plastic sleeves 95% of the time, and a weird 5% call them plastic pockets. Nobody calls them plastic protectors anymore because we implemented the death penalty for that sort of heresy.
I may or may not have an oddly strong opinion about this.
If you said to me "I need to buy Sleeves", I would say What's that? But if you said "I need to buy Plastic Sleeves", I would say Why? For your Notes or something?
Australian English. And no not really where I am. If you said "do you have any clear files?" out of the blue I'd take a second to work out what you were talking about.
As a fellow Aussie, it's usually plastic sleeve or plastic pocket, very rarely a plastic sheet or as my friend likes to call them "those plastic binder sheets that fall apart while you're rummaging through them because you have too many character sheets"
I don't know why you're being down voted for this, that's what I was told to call them growing up. I would go with plastic wallets now.
Edit: UK redditors have woken up and corrected the voting
Perhaps it’s due to the misspelling? I mean it shouldn’t be two l’s as that is the kids toy and Poly is a reference to the material they are made of, polypropylene.
Plastic sleeve or a plastic pocket thing. Usually said by asking a colleague and flapping an old creased broken one in front of them. "Do you have a plastic sleeve plastic pocket thingee??". To me a clear file is one of those plastic covered books with plastic sleeves that you insert certificates or pages in the top as some sort of desk file. It might have like 20 plastic pockets but 3 out of 4 sides are sealed. New Zealand.
To be honest, it took me a minute to think of what I would call these; I rarely find myself talking about them, if ever.
I would personally call them "plastic binder pockets" or "plastic paper sleeves."
Edit: I googled them just to see what would come up, and many sources call them "sheet protectors," which I wouldn't personally call them. It just sounds a little off.
Sheet protectors, as others have said, but I always forget this bc I do so rarely use them. I generally just manage „plastic paper sleeves“ and people also know what I mean. In short, you’d be surprised how many random things that mostly make sense these can be called and still get your point across.
I would call the second one “sheet protectors,” but I’m not familiar with the first one. I guess I’d just describe it, saying something like “a plastic sheet protector, but not the kind that goes in a binder.”
Millennial, US, female
Southern California: sheet protectors.
Also, I made a recipe book from all of my mom’s old recipe cards as a Mother’s Day gift when I was in high school and I printed it and put all the pages in these and it’s amazing. Splatter proof cookbook! Huge points from mom.
Kinda different depending on where you are, I’d call them plastic wallets or plastic sleeves but people where I grew up call the ones on the second slide “Polly pockets”… I have no idea why
Plastic sleeves or just sleeves.
Southern Ontario. These things are pretty rare here so you probably need to give context or be super specific if you need these.
For the second one, I've only ever known them as "polypockets" though I only really hear that in school from the teachers so it may be an old thing idrk
Plastic sleeve. I would never call them anything else, though I'd immediately understand sheet protector as well.
Same. Also Australian. The second one is definitely what we would call that. My initial thought looking at the first one was, I dunno - I guess it's a type of plastic sleeve.
Not a native living in london never had to refer to these things in a conversation but I would call them "page sleeve" or "plastic sleeve" too (even before reading your comment) definitely would take me a while to understand "sheet protector" out of context tho
I'm also a non native speaker, living in Ireland, and I'd use the page or plastic sleeve as well
Imagine a non native pronouncing sheet too short
I honestly like “plastic sleeve” even though I’m American
Page protectors 100% (mountain west usa)
I'm glad you came up with this bc the closest I could think of was "those flimsy clear things you put loose papers in."
New England region, USA, also page protectors
It actually took me a minute to think of it, but that's what I came up with too. (Now also mountain west USA, but I went to college in the mid-south, and that's likely the last time I even thought about one of these things....)
Same, I'm from Michigan (northern "midwest" US)
Same (from Florida)
Page Protectors (Great Lakes)
Sheet protectors.
This is a repost because I distinctly remember upvoting this comment: - “Sheet protectors” sounds like something to do with bed wetting to me.
Haha yea i think of those mattress protection things that come before the bed covers
Nah I call those mattress protectors
I’d call what you referenced “mattress protectors,” although I’ve heard older people call them “rubber sheets,” which always sounded to me like it was trying to describe a literal top sheet made of rubber, which isn’t what they are.
That’s what I’ve always called them
Me too! Sheet protectors and I am from Texas.
Sheet protectors or page protectors
American here. Just a heads up- these are not as commonly used in the US as they are in other places in the world, so there’s not a unified name to call them. Sheet protectors is what I would say.
>these are not as commonly used in the US as they are in other places in the world I'm an American living in Munich. Germans fucking love these things. They can't get enough of them.
Yep. Germany/Central Europe are totally obsessed 😂
These are used in Russia pretty often too.
All of my school documents from Russia were given to me in these, yet I never learned the name in Russian
Файл - sounds just like "file"
Yes, the good old Klarsichtfolie!
I'm american and use them all the time. The packaging states "sheet protectors", so that's what I call them as well. I would know what someone was saying if they said page protectors though.
I'd say page protectors. You have to use them in grade school, or I did anyway. Outside of that I've never thought they were neccessary. I either tape over with packing tape if it's at home or use the laminator if it's at work.
I only used them occasionally in school
They're widely used to keep sheet music in.
I call it a clear file, but that's because they call them that in Japan (クリアファイル *kuriafairu*) and I collect Japanese ones with images of my favorite J-pop groups and singers on them.
Actually they’re called files in Russian too, I was surprised to find out they aren’t in English.
Russians have regional differences. In some regions it is called a pocket or multifora.
Как сказать что ты из Новосибирска не говоря этого
Просто из Зауралья)
На Камчатке это всё ещё файл.
and then there‘s German, where we call those things clear sight sleeve (Klarsichthülle)
Clear file is the correct answer. They were apparently first produced in Japan
Same in some variants of Indian English. We use these for when we don't wanna staple papers together but wanna keep them relatively organized. They're often called "project folders" or "plastic folders" as well.
Same— I call them clear files, but before I lived in Japan I wouldn’t have even had a specific word for it because they’re not so common in America. Probably would have said either a page protector or sheet protector.
Poly pockets in the 90s
US. I thought you were joking! I haven’t heard this item called that in the States. This is what I think of when I hear “poly pocket.” https://shop.mattel.com/collections/polly-pocket
You’re obligated to sing 🎵“Pol-la-la-la-polly” 🎶 whenever you purchase them. Fact.
Same for this Australian. My sister was obsessed by Polly Pocket Dolls
That is where the expression was from. They were big in the UK
Scotland- also call it a polypocket
Use these at work. Am in Scotland. Would all call them poly pockets. Never heard ‘sheet protectors.’
Also same in Scotland
Same here in Scotland )maybe all the UK?) still
Ireland too.
I'd call them a poly pocket too, (North East England) but when I said it to a colleague,a few months ago they had never heard them called that and called them a plastic wallet!
Thank god you commented this. I'm a 90s kid from Scotland and have only known them as Polly pockets
One more for Polly pockets! U.K. 😂
Poly pockets here in birmingham england!
I'm really surprised by this. I'm in South Staffs and call them plastic wallets.
It's a Poly Pocket in Central Scotland too
Same in London.
Plastic wallet, plastic document wallet.
Plastic wallet is the only thing I’ve heard this being called so I’m surprised this is quite far down.
Is it a UK thing? I’m from the UK and would call that a plastic wallet too
Yeah plastic wallet, UK
Same. It's probably because I live in England, though. They're called either that or poly pockets to me
In West Sussex, they have an awful term for these: Slippery Fish
Is this from a specific town? I’m in West Sussex and I’ve never heard that before.
Plastic sleeves 95% of the time, and a weird 5% call them plastic pockets. Nobody calls them plastic protectors anymore because we implemented the death penalty for that sort of heresy. I may or may not have an oddly strong opinion about this.
I call them poly pockets. Poly is short for polyurethane.
Same where I am in the UK
I'm in Scotland too. I wonder if this is a Scottish thing?
no, I also call them that, SW England
Important to note a poly pocket is something completely different to American millennials
Yeah, the little doll thing. This came first.
I second "plastic sleeves" in Australia!
Yup, plastic sleeves or just Sleeves
If you said to me "I need to buy Sleeves", I would say What's that? But if you said "I need to buy Plastic Sleeves", I would say Why? For your Notes or something?
American English? Are there people who call them “plastic files” or “clear files”?
Australian English. And no not really where I am. If you said "do you have any clear files?" out of the blue I'd take a second to work out what you were talking about.
Crazy - I'm strongly on team 'plastic pocket' as an AusE speaker. But also I'm from Melbourne so maybe we have regional variation on this one.
It would make no sense to me to call these files. A file is the paper you put inside them.
I have never heard anyone call these “files” in west coast America
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was looking for this comment, slippery fish all the way, didn't know it was a sussex only thing though.
can confirm im from sussex - always called them slippery fish
FUCKING THANK YOU! I was starting to loose hope.
I was so surprised scrolling through that no one called it a slippery fish, this is the only name I've known it by! (also from Sussex)
In England we call them plastic wallets, I've also heard polly pocket but I'd say plastic wallet is more common
Might be an North<->South thing, it's a Poly pocket most of the time where I am
I’m northern and I’d call it a plastic wallet
i second this, honestly had no idea people called then anything other than a plastic wallet
Australia: “plastic pocket”
Thank you!! I was scrolling looking for this thinking I can’t be the only one
As a fellow Aussie, it's usually plastic sleeve or plastic pocket, very rarely a plastic sheet or as my friend likes to call them "those plastic binder sheets that fall apart while you're rummaging through them because you have too many character sheets"
Haven't heard this one in Sydney
Thanks to everyone who commented. I use these regularly, and I didn't know what they were called.
Pollypockets
I don't know why you're being down voted for this, that's what I was told to call them growing up. I would go with plastic wallets now. Edit: UK redditors have woken up and corrected the voting
I would imagine it's a UK vs British thing - I'm from Northern Ireland
Yeah again bit harsh on the downvotes. I grew up in the midlands and heard them being called Poly pockets growing up.
I grew up in Liverpool, there’s a lot of Irish influence there
I've never heard them called anything else, lived all my life in Wales and South West England.
Poly pocket here in Scotland too
Perhaps it’s due to the misspelling? I mean it shouldn’t be two l’s as that is the kids toy and Poly is a reference to the material they are made of, polypropylene.
I'm in Scotland, it's also a pollypocket to me
Slippery Fish. I'm in the UK, not a damn clue where that came from but that's what me and my school friends all used to call them
It's regional to pretty much only Sussex I believe, though yeah no clue how they got that name in the first place
That makes sense because I’m from there and we always called them slippery fish.
Plastic wallet British English
Plastic sleeve or a plastic pocket thing. Usually said by asking a colleague and flapping an old creased broken one in front of them. "Do you have a plastic sleeve plastic pocket thingee??". To me a clear file is one of those plastic covered books with plastic sleeves that you insert certificates or pages in the top as some sort of desk file. It might have like 20 plastic pockets but 3 out of 4 sides are sealed. New Zealand.
I know people who call these "slippery fish". For me, they are plastic wallets or punched pockets. Northern England.
The second picture are called polly pockets in the UK. No idea why
Plastic pockets
Plastic wallet or poly pocket! (UK 🇬🇧)
Plastic wallet (UK). Definitely not a folder.
A plastic wallet
plastic sleeves in aus
I’ve only ever known them as plastic wallets (Liverpool, England) but I think any of the other suggested names are okay too :)
We call them plastic wallets in the UK
Australian, here (in Melbourne at least) we'd call the second ones plastic pockets.
Agreed
Poly pockets
Uk. Plastic wallets, sheet protector would also be understood but I haven’t heard it be used.
Plastic slip (Aus)
Poly pockets in the UK
Plastic pocket
Clear file or plastic wallet (UK English)
Yes, it's regional It's called a "poly-pocket" where I am
Polly pockets
Polly pockets in North of England
Poly pocket
Plastic wallets (UK)
Poly pocket
Poly pockets in England
Plastic sleeve (Australia).
Uk, plastic wallet.
Plastic sleeve thingy (Northernmost tip of Appalachia)
Poly Pocket - anything else is blasphemous
To be honest, it took me a minute to think of what I would call these; I rarely find myself talking about them, if ever. I would personally call them "plastic binder pockets" or "plastic paper sleeves." Edit: I googled them just to see what would come up, and many sources call them "sheet protectors," which I wouldn't personally call them. It just sounds a little off.
Probably a folder, or plastic folder. These aren't too commonly used in the US and Canada, outside of some heavily Asian areas.
Folder pockets (Scotland). I have a few thousand of them filled with sheet music.
Poly pockets.
page protectors/sheet protectors
Poly pocket in England
Plastic wallet (UK)
East coast USA - sheet protectors
South Africa, plastic sleeves
Plastic sleeve or a folder
Pollypocket (UK, Wales)
Middle-aged native speaker in English Midlands. I have always called them poly wallets or poly pockets. I have heard them called page protectors too.
I would call them page protectors. Although I’m only seen them fairly recently in my life here in Canada.
Page protector.
Plastic Folder (Philippines)
Polypockets (Ireland)
american- would call this a page sleeve.
UK British English: Plastic Wallet Though I can tell you that some Welsh people call them 'Polly Pockets', which is hilarious.
weird little plastic paper holder thingies
Sheet protectors, as others have said, but I always forget this bc I do so rarely use them. I generally just manage „plastic paper sleeves“ and people also know what I mean. In short, you’d be surprised how many random things that mostly make sense these can be called and still get your point across.
Plastic sheets
I'm from New York, and I would call it a page protector. I've also heard some people say sheet protector.
Poly Pocket West Midlands, UK
Binder Sheets
I would call the second one “sheet protectors,” but I’m not familiar with the first one. I guess I’d just describe it, saying something like “a plastic sheet protector, but not the kind that goes in a binder.” Millennial, US, female
Plastic sleeves
Document holder or page protector.
Plastic pockets - Ireland
St. Lawrence lowlands, in ontario
Single folder
Plastic file folders or cover sheets
British here now you see that's a polly pocket
Plastic wallet
Slimy pockets
duotang
Polly pocket
We called them wallets. I guess they hold paper, just not legal tender
page protector
Plastic paper protector thingys 😂
Sheet protectors, at least in Michigan US
Wait am i the only one who call these plastic files/folders (uk)??
Document protectors (standard U.S. military term)
Are there regional differences? Massively so. I would probably call it a plastic sleeve or wallet , although I’ve heard it called a poly pocket.
Punched pockets.
Southern California: sheet protectors. Also, I made a recipe book from all of my mom’s old recipe cards as a Mother’s Day gift when I was in high school and I printed it and put all the pages in these and it’s amazing. Splatter proof cookbook! Huge points from mom.
I call it a plastic wallet. (Liverpool , England)
Plastic sleeve would be most common here in Australia I think.
Sheet protectors.
Kinda different depending on where you are, I’d call them plastic wallets or plastic sleeves but people where I grew up call the ones on the second slide “Polly pockets”… I have no idea why
Page or Sheet Protector. (Gulf of Mexico Coast)
Tab dividers
Plastic sleeves or just sleeves. Southern Ontario. These things are pretty rare here so you probably need to give context or be super specific if you need these.
I was told poly pocket 😂
For the second one, I've only ever known them as "polypockets" though I only really hear that in school from the teachers so it may be an old thing idrk
I'd call the first one a plastic sleeve and the second a plastic pocket
Plastic file
Plastic wallets (UK)
In Myanmar here: plastic file or L-file
Polly Pockets (Scotland)
Sheet protectors 🇨🇦
Plastic sleeve (Sydney)
Micas