Date:  Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:59:48 -0500

From:  James C Stalker <stalker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: toboggan



>

> Students from Toledo OH and Michiganders use this term for a knit cap.

>

Not Michiganders from the East Lansing area. I grew up in KY in the 50s using

this term as the usual name for a knit cap (a term I never used until I lived

in Michigan). I check the term regularly with my students, and none have ever

heard it in the meaning 'knit cap,' only as a sled.  The OED gives tobaggon cap

as US, with earliest example

from <American Speech>, V, 152, and two other examples, one from the <Pacific

Spectator> and one from the <Raleigh (NC) News & Observer>.



JCStalker

stalker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu