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Originally Posted by stuckinparadise

I am originally from Wisconsin but when I joined the Army, my first duty station was in Alabama. Needless to say, their choices for words were very different from what I was used to, ie. toboggan is used to describe a hat worn by robbers (in Wisconsin, we called them stocking caps or beanies). According to Wikipedia: A toboggan is a simple sled which is a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation. Th

Where I grew up in Alabama a boggin was a wooly hat we wore in cold weather. I knew it as an abbreviation for toboggan. When we moved to NY I was a teenager and wondered why in the world anyone would try ride down a snowy hill on a hat. Took awhile to realize they were talking about a sled-like platform mainly used to slide into trees.