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In now-days there are two types of blackboards: one is green (it's used with chalk) and the second is white (it's used with marker pen).

My question is if there is a specific name for white-blackboard? (In my language we simply refer to the white one as "white blackboard".)

Whiteboard for pens Green board for chalk

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    It's a whiteboard strangely enough :) – ColleenV Dec 10 '16 at 2:11
  • Thank you:) so if I saw people who referred to it as a blackboard, then they were wrong? – Judicious Allure Dec 10 '16 at 2:26
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    It depends - if it was a classroom, calling it a blackboard would be like calling a tissue a "kleenex" . Teachers write on the blackboard, even if sometimes it is a whiteboard or it is green. If you were in an office, it wouldn't be natural to call it a blackboard. In an office, whiteboards are usual, so you might even call a pane of glass that someone uses like a whiteboard a whiteboard. Are you confused yet? I think you should add the part about people calling it a blackboard into your question. – ColleenV Dec 10 '16 at 2:31
  • I got it. you actually says that the word "blackboard" became to generic name in case of schools and collages and not in case of offices. Isn't it? – Judicious Allure Dec 10 '16 at 2:47
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    And of course you can call all of them, whether white, green, or black, "the board". Who would like to write the equation on the board? – Tᴚoɯɐuo Dec 10 '16 at 17:34
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The white coloured "blackboard" is actually called whiteboard commonly in corporates offices and such places, where people write on it with a marker pen.

The name is now well established, and has propagated into software as well, where some conference calling applications also provide a "virtual whiteboard" which the participants can annotate for others to see.

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  • In today's drive for being politically correct (black versus white), also due to the fact that they can be green as indicated in the question, a blackboard is generally termed a chalkboard and a whiteboard is termed a marker board – Chris Rogers Dec 14 '16 at 10:13
  • Calling black black and white white is considered politically incorrect? :o It sounds like a lot of people are evolving backwards these days. – Masked Man Dec 14 '16 at 10:35
  • I agree. Black is black and white is white. How someone got this to involve race I don't know. I have heard the same with white and black coffee. (Coffee with milk or coffee with no milk). – Chris Rogers Dec 14 '16 at 10:51

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