What do you call this children’s game?
I grew up calling it “Hide &Seek”, but, even as a child, I encountered the occasional aberrant who inserted an extraneous “go” into the name of the game.
What say you?
I thought putting the “go” in it was an American thing. I have never heard it in Britain.
Same for Australia.
Well, for what it’s worth, I’m an American. And think the “go” is unnecessary.
I had the same experience as a kid. The vast majority of kids said “hide and seek”, but sometimes someone would say “hide and go seek.”
We were all very much “go” – since the seeker had to actively hunt us. We had rules against hanging near to base and just trying to “spot”.
I voted for “go”. Ohioan born in 1979.
Mostly we all called it “Hide and Seek,” but even as a child I was aware that some called it “Hide and Go Seek.”
Back in West Texas, it was just “Hide & Seek.” No “Go.”
But that’s inherent in “seek.” I’m pretty sure “go” was only added for the rhythm. It’s more sing-songy, and thus more childlike.
I called it “Hide and Go Seek” as a kid, but “Hide and Seek” now.
This is also true for me. I grew up in the Cleveland, OH, area in the 50s 60s.
Both to some extent. I think less “go” but sort of confused after already seeing them both in the subject and them both feeling right.
“Go” also. Ohioan from Cleveland born in 1959. The kids in my neighborhood, at least, used the “go”; I was aware that the wider world didn’t say it with “go” and that we were speaking a regionalism. Once aware of that, I preferred the regionalism, just because.
“Go.” Upstate NY (Great Lakes region) in the 80s/90s.
It seems like we used to blur “hide and go” into one word, so it was
Hidengo Seek (I have no idea of the spelling)
Apparently no one else here did that?
Hide and seek! I was to busy playing games to stop and say another word! Haha
My recollection is that we called it “hide and seek.” Chicago, in the 80s.
My recollection (Brisbane, Australia) was Hidie-go-seek.
I’m from the same area, same time, and it was always “Hide and Seek.”