I went for a run today at lunchtime and it was a balmy 9 degrees celcius.  That probably doesn’t even show up on southern thermometers so I don’t know what the translation is but for barely-March here it’s pretty good.  I was in a t-shirt.  And a tuque just to be safe.  That’s the knitted hat thingy.  That’s what they’re called.

It reminds me of the time I was working with a woman in New York and she put a knitted hat thingy on her head and I told her that Canadians call it a “tuque”.  She was interested that we had different words for stuff and asked me to repeat it. 

And then when she was leaving she put her hat on again and said, “what’s it called?  A toke?”

I said, “um, don’t call it a toke.  It’s a tuque.” 

I’m trying to save this girl from running around sounding like a dope-smoking, tuque-wearing Canadian wannabe with a New York accent, you know?  I was just trying to help, but maybe we should have stuck with knitted hat thingy….