Ged Maheux2d ago

I’ve just learned that apparently some Canadians call their winter hats “toboggans”. That’s crazy talk. Toboggans are the *thing multiple people slide down snow-covered hills in*. They are NOT sleds. Sleds have a single rider and have metal runners.

1 - Toboggan
2 - Sled
3 - Flying saucer

Show threadAsh Doyle2d ago
@gedeonm I’m a US southerner born in 1973 and as a kid “toboggan” was the most common word heard around here for a woven winter hat often with a poof ball thing on top.
Show threadCarolyn
@ashkendo @gedeonm Wild. As a Canadian, I have never heard that. We wear toques and ride toboggans. It must be a regional thing, and a region I have yet to visit.
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Show threadSean Heber2d ago
@CStamp @ashkendo @gedeonm in Iowa that style of hat with the ball on it was usually called a stocking cap by everyone I knew.
Show threadReay1d ago

@CStamp @ashkendo @gedeonm Same.

Knit hat with pompom at the top = toque.

Multi-person sled = toboggan.

Never encountered the former being called the latter. 🤔