# Things You Learned/Figured Out At A Surprisingly Advanced Age

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-figured-out-at-a-surprisingly-advanced-age/830249 "2019-02-26T17:07:00Z")
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### Author: ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-figured-out-at-a-surprisingly-advanced-age/830249/21 "2019-02-27T17:26:00Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> 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.

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