See, I find the way you worded your little reprimand to be harsh, shrewish, impolite, and offensive. The name of the item is still pacifier.
You're outright lying. You don't have a clue what the whole country says. A dummy is a reproduction, for example a stuffed image of a human being, for use in various industrial testing, circus, target shooting etc. as in crash test dummy. It is also a slang term for someone who doesn't speak, also for a stupid person. Don't use dummy unless you want a lot of people to misunderstand you, think you're insulting the disabled, calling someone stupid, or maybe they will put you in a crash test. Got it, mom? no? then reflect on it.
Literally the entire country of Australia calls it dummy. Many New Zealanders too. Yes dummy has other meanings but that doesn't make it wrong. Dummy has come to mean the same thing as a pacifier where I live and it has for decades. Don't call me a liar.
You are not the CEO of pacifiers. I'm not saying pacifier is wrong but you however are trying to assert that dummy is wrong. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it incorrect, get a fucking grip.
yeah exactly, lots of people call it lots of things and sometimes people get confused but google is RIGHT. THERE. if you need it and its otherwise a simple matter of explaining if people misunderstand. But OP doesn't really get that I guess.
Sorry for filling your notifications with this crap btw lol

wtf is with the "dummy" thing? The kid isn't succking on a maniken. He's sucking on a pacifier.