Things You Learned/Figured Out At A Surprisingly Advanced Age

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@kayaker

I grew up calling a hooded sweatshirt a hooded sweatshirt. When my kids were young, one of them used the word “hoodie”, and I corrected what I thought was baby-talk. Apparently I was the last person in the US to know the word hoodie.

I think you and I are of the same generation, and hooded sweatshirts weren’t called “hoodies” when we were growing up. I don’t know when the term was coined - I *think *my first exposure might have been the Trayvon Martin case- but Adam Sandler was still referring to his “Red Hooded Sweatshirt” in 1997. And “hoodie” does sound like baby-talk.