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October 21st, 2009 by admin

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  1. Mim Carrington:

    October 22nd, 2009 at 4:22 am

    When I was a kid we called knitted hats ‘beanies’; this was in the mid-late 1970s in Canberra, Australia… so maybe not the sk8erboyz fault (although they are probably responsible for a large amount of other language demolition).

  2. ~ Sil in Corea:

    November 14th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    “Bean” seems to be a British term for “head” or “person.” I originated ‘north of Beantown,’ also called ‘Downeast,’ where a lot of old Brit slang still lurks. “She bonked him on the bean,” for example.

  3. Nancy:

    January 12th, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    Very common here in northeastern North Carolina — in fact, no other term is used that I know of

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