Talk:bowler hat

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Fashionable

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I don't get it. Why does this definition try to say what is fashionable and not? --80.216.237.213 13:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

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bowler hat

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The type of hat is called a bowler not bowler hat hat. --Connel MacKenzie 16:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Delete. Quite right, as the etymology at bowler clearly shows. -- Algrif 17:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Keep - it is called both a bowler and a bowler hat. --Keene 17:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Could you then please provide some attestation for "bowler hat hat"? --Connel MacKenzie 18:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
I don't think that would be very useful, but I'd be happy to provide links to show that bowler hat is a real word. --Keene 18:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, this actually is in use. I am shocked. --Connel MacKenzie 18:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Please lay out the case for this deletion for me. Is the problem that "bowler hat" is a redundancy? Like "sandwiched between slices of bread". Is it just SoP and not a set phrase? (There are 1266 hits for "bowler hat".) Will the computer load of another entry with a "non-standard" tag break WMF? Is it even non-standard in places or in social classes where people don't wear them and may never even have seen them? Some people may just be confused by the words "wearing a bowler". I detect creeping prescriptivism. There may well be a case for deletion, but it is not apparent to me yet. I'm going to do my monthly re-read of CFI now. DCDuring TALK 18:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
I question this term, as I've never heard it called a "bowler hat" ever, only a "bowler." The 'pedia entry at that title seemed like a disambiguation gone awry, but alas, searching books yields a hint. --Connel MacKenzie 18:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Keep, not everyone calls it a bowler. Bowler hat is quite common.--Dmol 22:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Is there some kind of US/UK difference here? I have rarely heard it called anything other than a "bowler hat", as a distinct 2-word phrase - unlike with fedora or whatever. Widsith 22:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Looks like a US/UK difference - it is almost always (though not very often these days) called a bowler hat in the UK (I just assumed "bowler" was short for "bowler hat") SemperBlotto 22:51, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Not a US/UK thing as much as a generational difference maybe. If you told someone in the US "He's wearing a bowler" today you might get a funny look; bowler hat they'd immediately think of Charlie Chaplin, etc, etc. I specifically remember in the 2002 version of The Time Machine set in New York they talked about everyone wearing identical bowler hats though. Who knows. Globish 23:00, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
Not a US/UK thing at all; I've only heard "bowler hat". I think Connel's making a joke of some sort, with his request that we provide cites "bowler hat hat". —RuakhTALK 00:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Reply


Kept. See archived discussion of January 2008. 07:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)