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prillalar ([personal profile] prillalar) wrote2005-01-30 09:43 pm

A little help, eh?

If you're not Canadian, what do you call a tuque? Does anybody wear them outside of North America?

I was all set to write about Kaidoh wearing a tuque in the winter and then I realised that might not quite work. :) Any suggestions?

[identity profile] katie-m.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd just call it a "hat" or a "winter hat," myself, but the wiki suggestion of "ski hat" could work too I think. (I'm originally from the northeast.)

[identity profile] insaneneko.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought "knit cap" when I saw the pic, but I don't come from a cold climate...

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[identity profile] hobviously.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Beanie.

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[identity profile] girliejones.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep - Aussies call it a beanie.

[identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
hat. Stocking cap.
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[personal profile] ladysorka 2005-01-30 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ski hat/knit cap/winter hat

[identity profile] sophia-helix.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Beanie, ski hat, or knitted cap. I'd go for the last one, personally, since it's more descriptive than "beanie" or "tuque," both of which seem like place-specific nouns.

[identity profile] jacquez.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, "beanie" can also mean something like this (http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html), aka "tinfoil beanie" (from whence "tinhats"), or something like this (http://www.eddiestrickshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ETS&Product_Code=H1060&Category_Code=H), the famed geeky propeller beanie.

[identity profile] cyanei.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that how it's spelled? I've always spelled it "touque". Hmm....

[identity profile] rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And I've always spelled it "Toque." I think I need to look it up in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

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[identity profile] musesfool.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
knit cap or knit hat or ski hat. I originally wanted to say watch cap (http://www.royea.net/twistedrib.html), but that has a fold.

[identity profile] wtfbrain.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm technically Canadian, but I still just call it a hat. Occasionally differentiated with "blue hat" or "red hat."

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[personal profile] mad_maudlin 2005-01-30 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
::gets nerdy happy linguist vibes from this discussion::

I would call it a knit cap, myself (and I'm firmly from the middle bits of the US). The phrase "stocking cap" makes me think of one that's excessively long and pointy (like a elf hat?) and "ski hat" really has no meaning for me. Not a beanie, though--those have propellers.

My roommate says "knit cap" or "stocking cap."

I've also heard them called "hoodie hats" where I'm from, but only from one source, so I have no idea where that's coming from.

[identity profile] basingstoke.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Ski hat or stocking cap, though that's a bit antiquated.

Or a knit hat.

Or just "hat that I need because it is zero degrees out, omg." I have two--one is gray with a red border and the other is black and white striped. The gray one is pretty, the striped one is WARM and can pull right down to my glasses if need be. Oy. Enough winter already.

(Firmly Midwestern.)

[identity profile] contrariwise.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
knit cap, ski cap, knitted hat... though most people I know usually call it a tuque. (Note--am from a state on the Canadian border *g*)

[identity profile] meyerlemon.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'd call it a "watch cap", too.

Caveat: I'm from Los Angeles. Such hats are purely ornamental here, and most often referred to as "You know, that hat Justin Timberlake was wearing at the Lakers game last week, it was on Extra..."

So my hat knowledge is totally suspect.

[identity profile] svilleficrecs.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
For myself, hat. On others.. skull cap or winter cap or hat... depends.

[identity profile] not-vacillating.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
I hear lots of people calling them beanies, but I'd probably go for 'woolly hat', or in the family 'bobble-less bobble hat', because they really look like they *should* have a bobble.

[identity profile] manynames.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'd call it a beanie hat.

[identity profile] overly-shy.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
when I moved to North Carolina, I was really surprised to discover that the locals call them "toboggans". No, really! They wear sleds on their heads! Um. It does make reading police reports in the paper really funny, though...

I grew up in the Midwest US calling them just hats.

[identity profile] lyricalnights.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I grew up in GA, and we always called them "toboggans," I think because you use them when you go sledding. (We don't exactly have many snow days 'round these parts.) *g*

[identity profile] penknife.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Ski hat, knit hat. Bobble hat if it had a bobble on it.

[identity profile] 1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'd call it a stocking cap.

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[identity profile] 1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm American.

[identity profile] neeteeus.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you say 'tuque', and not 'toque'. A disturbingly large percentage of my anglophone friends write it with an 'o', and I was beginning to think it was just me because I'm French. =D

[identity profile] willysunny.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'm American, and when I saw the pic, I thought: Oh look, a hat. Also, Knit Hat or Ski Hat are fine.

[identity profile] stanking.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'd call it a beanie.

[identity profile] tzikeh.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
knit cap, or ski hat. I've used and heard both, and I grew up on the U.S.'s East Coast, and have lived all my adult life in the U.S.'s Midwest.

[identity profile] supergrover24.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm from Upstate New York, and I call it a tuque.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/ 2005-01-31 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's a Pudelmütze! (Literally translated this would be Poodle Hat, which I find very appropriate.)
And yes, we wear them over here. Not the poodles, though.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2005-01-31 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
even without the ear flaps? it does not even seem to have a bommel, doesn't that technically disqualify it from being a poodle hat, what with no bommel-tail ;)

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