Advertisement
Dublin: 12 °C Thursday 14 November, 2024

Beauty Q: What do you call the thing you use to tie up your hair?

A question that divides a nation.

MY CAT IS obsessed with playing with bobbles. No, not or ‘bobbins’ or ‘gogos’: bobbles. 

giphy

In my household, hair ties have always been called ‘bobbles’. However, when I ventured out of Cork, I quickly realised that the common vernacular when it comes to elastics is far wider than I could have imagined

220px-Hair_ties

First, there’s bobble’s close confidant, ‘bobbin’.

My issue here is that such a thing as a ‘bobbin; already exists, and it’s a piece of sewing apparatus not suitable for putting your hair in to pigtails.

Second favourite, by a wide margin, is the frankly baffling term, ‘gogo’.

What are the origins of this? “Go go gadget, tie my hair up?” I don’t think so.

giphy (1)

I’ll take ‘scrunchie’ over ‘gogo’, despite the fact that a scrunchie only applies to a select few hair ties.

Claire's Claire's

Forget Brexit – nothing divides a nation quite like the debate over what word is correct when it comes to the thing that you have around your wrist at any given moment should their be a hair-related emergency. 

Right then, what do you call a hair tie?


Poll Results:

Bobbin (1843)
Bobble (734)
Gogo (478)
Hair tie (322)
Something else ... (176)

DailyEdge is on Instagram!

Author
Fionnuala Jones
View 3 comments
Close
3 Comments
This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy here before taking part.
Leave a Comment
    Submit a report
    Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
    Thank you for the feedback
    Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.

    Leave a commentcancel