Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?
To be fair, at least personally, I learned the word ‘cylinder’ long before I learned ‘rectangular prism’. Maybe because the latter is usually called a cuboid or box, while there is no simpler word for a cylinder.
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