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Left = spatula
Right = pancake turner

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If those are both spatulas, then what is this?

@grammargirl Spatula

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In German:

• Left, a "Teigschaber" ("dough scraper")
• Right, a "Pfannenwender" ("turn-over tool for pans")

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Left: scraper or as my parents called it: “Scotch spoon"
Right: spatula

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They're the same picture.

@grammargirl I gravitate between spatula and turner, because I've moved a lot.

@grammargirl I grew up (Nebraska) calling the both a spatula. The parody “Spatula City” commercial in the film ‘UHF’ would agree. Nowadays, I mostly call the one on the right a flipper, just to be understood by my wife’s family.

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Left: "spatula" or "rubber-scraper"

Right: "spatula" or "flipper" (or "pancake flipper")

I tend to use "spatula" if the context is unambiguous ("may I lick the spatula when you're done making the cookie dough?" is clearly a rubber-scraper in this context), or go for the more awkward naming if I need to disambiguate ("could you hand me the pancake-flipper from the utensil drawer (where the rubber-scrapers also reside)?").

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The silicone one in Italy is called “lecca padelle”
( pan licker)
The Black one is “paletta”
( little spade)

@grammargirl Occasionally, either of them can be 'fly swatter'.
The rest of the time it's left spatula, right fish slice. Southern UK.

@grammargirl Language is wild and interesting. :)

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In french the first is "une maryse" and the second "une spatule"

@grammargirl Y’all seem to not know a basic “bowl scraper” when you see one. 😂

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"spatula"
"no, the other spatula"

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Danish: Dejskraber (doughscraper) / spatel (spatula)

@grammargirl @Nickiquote the one on left is a spatula, one one the right is a fish slice. i'm scottish.

@grammargirl Since nobody has mentioned it, I'd say both are spatulas but I'd also call the one on the right a "flipper."

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the one on the left doesn't have a name; it's a scraper, you could call it that if you like.
the one on the right is a fish slice. all other answers are wrong.

@grammargirl I call them both spatula's also

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I'm going to listen to this! But first, before I get biased, I've always thought it weird that they were both called spatulas. In my world, the one on the left is usually a "rubber spatula". One of the saddest things I ever heard was that some people refer to those as "child cheaters", i.e. you use it to wipe the cookie batter bowl clean instead of letting the kid lick the bowl.

@grammargirl okay, some of us named Turner are really feeling left out in the comments, here

@grammargirl Left: "silicone spatula, but never just "spatula."

Right: "fish slice" is what I would have called it growing up in Scotland. Now, living in the US, I'd call it a "spatula."

@grammargirl I think of spatula (right) as what you use to flip things in a fry pan or grill. The thing on left is more like for stirring batter. I have seen them listed as “scraper” (and spatula).

It’s more fun with disagreement.

@grammargirl Every item advertised by Spatula City seems to be the one on the right, so that's definitive for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrRfiG6C3E&t=3

@grammargirl Spatula (l), fish slice (r).

@grammargirl FYI: the “Read” simplecast link shows a 404 error on my end

@grammargirl in spanish (at least in México) the first one is a "miserable"

@grammargirl yup, both spatulas. Rubber/metal or soft/hard if I have to differentiate