It's that time of year again... I start talking about toques, and American's stare at me blankly. A toque is a hat you wear in winter that keeps your head warm. It's frequently knit (or crochet), but I've seen polar fleece hats I'd call toques too. Pom-poms are optional. Alternate spelling is tuque or tuoque. Dictionary.com has a rather blah description, and Wikipedia has a more interesting one.
Oh... and a toboggan is a kind of sled. (...mutter... mutter... crazy southerner's! ... mutter...)
This educational message is brought to you by Procrastinator, she who should be working on stuff for her meeting this afternoon...
Yeah. I think it was maybe my second year down here in NC, and there was an article that described a guy as wearing a toboggan! (Ow!) However, he was actually wearing a balaclava. Poor confused southerners!
ReplyDeleteI blame it on the fact that they don't get any cold weather down here. ;)