Those things people in the West call “beanies” are not beanies. Beanies are a different kind of hat entirely.
They are toques or tuques or knit caps or watch caps or ski caps, or stocking caps or various other things, but not beanies.
Beanies are a kind of multi-panel skullcap.
… and before people start chiming in about “language is mutable; a beautiful poetic living thing”… it shouldn’t be, when it reduces clarity and impedes communication. Calling a kind of hat that already has a dozen perfectly good names by the name of a completely different hat makes nothing better.
Those things people in the West call “beanies” are not beanies. Beanies are a different kind of hat entirely.
They are toques or tuques or knit caps or watch caps or ski caps, or stocking caps or various other things, but not beanies.
Beanies are a kind of multi-panel skullcap.
… and before people start chiming in about “language is mutable; a beautiful poetic living thing”… it shouldn’t be, when it reduces clarity and impedes communication. Calling a kind of hat that already has a dozen perfectly good names by the name of a completely different hat makes nothing better.