Spade or shovel?Light hearted.

Well I'm quite likely to shovel up soil with a spade!

FannyCornforth

A shovel is deep, and a spade more flat

Indeed. Different horses for different courses...

A spade has a long handle and is used for digging, usually earth and heavy substances; a shovel has a short handle and is used for shovelling up coal, refuse. gravel etc.

Spade.

A spade has a flat blade, whilst a shovel has raised sides. So it's not a case of using different words for the same item. They are different items.

As everyone else has said …two different things!

What were you using for your shoveling Yammy?
I might well use a spade if I was removing moss off some flat surface and didn't have something easier.

I might then shovel it up with the same tool! ...but if there was s lot I might use a shovel...

A spade is what I use in the garden (or on a beach!). I have a shovel too - last used for moving some hard-core. It's a rougher tool and as fanny says, deeper.

I call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel.

Tempted to say I call a spade a spade

For me it depends on the shape. A spade is flat, e.g. a garden spade, whereas a shovel has curved edges, e.g. a coal shovel.

I wouldn’t dream of correcting someone else’s name for the things, how rude.

A shovel is deep, and a spade more flat

I rarely have need to refer to either (insert snooty emoji)

I always thought that a spade was for gardening,a shovel was for building etc.