Over here in the boonies we used to call em diskettes.
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Nope
I was still a kid in the '80s, but basically grew up around (and in, sometimes), computer stores and computers. I don't recall hearing this.
The housing was kinda rigid but the disk itself was real flimsy, says I who have used many floppy disks. Plus, in French we used to say 'disque' or even 'disquette' (a small disk) which did not relate at all to their floppiness, so to speak.
They were also square. We still called them "discs".
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Yes.
They were floppy inside
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People loved saying the word floppy and this correlated well with another 3.5" object that could reasonably reach 5.25" or even 8" when less "floppy."
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Maybe... But "Hard Disk" was already taken. 🤷♂️
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