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- "Alle har på seg lue."
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The words suggested in this thread are all either regional, incorrect or imprecise translations. We cannot refrain from teaching a word in Norwegian just because English speakers seem unable to agree on a translation (or do a Google search).
"Lue" is an essential word to know if you want to survive the Norwegian winter, and completely unambiguous to any Norwegian. A simple image search will show you what is meant by it.
My comment is actually a plain statement of the truth given in artistic form. It's the only kind of art I'm any good at so I have to make use of it when I get the chance!
We can only choose images from an existing set, which doesn't include a lue/beanie/toque/whatever-you-want-to-call-the-thing. And we can't control the order of the exercises, so even for those words that have images, we have no way to make sure that the image exercises are the first ones shown to users.
No, I didn't, because I was tired and run off my feet and hadn't had coffee yet! But now I have time to look at it properly, indeed, and I should be ashamed of myself! But I didn't and I can't think why. I'm aftaid it will result in you thinking I am a disagreeable man.
Oh well, my comment might serve a useful purpose explaining the reasons to someone else who visits the thread in the future. :)
Now if only I weren't so tired I could find a way to fit my eyes being fully open to my awful situation into this comment.
This particularly long and unintelligible comment isn't generally read and if it is it doesn't matter.
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Beanie, a simple skull cap with a bean-button on top, sometimes a child's version with a propeller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_(seamed_cap)
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Is 'lue' the non-definite plural word as well? ie. Could the translation also have been 'Everyone is wearing beanies'?
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Emos in Oz never wear beanies; cold people do. I don't know what emos do when they have a cold head, but that whole trend seems to have died out here for the most part. (I won't say the next thing I thought.)
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In Australia we wear beanies in Winter also - but also specifically to sporting matches. They are typically knitted wool in team colours, often with a bobble on the top.
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This is what a "beanie" was when I was growing up: https://www.villagehatshop.com/photos/product/giant/4511390S59716/alt/59716.jpg
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I associate both Norway and NewZealand with BobbleHats, the specific kind of woolen hat that has a pom-pom on top. Does a lue have a pom-pom?
Beanie to me is one of those funny little collectable animals toys not a hat - I agree with the comment that it would be far more sensible to use woolly hat (or ski hat) or a word that everybody would know. I am having real trouble remembering this one as it is so obscure and I just can't picture the thing without thinking of the beanie bears.
There are so many regional English translations for this, that I suggest we all adopt the word "lue" to mean this type of headwear, worldwide! In the words of Stephen Colbert: From this moment henceforth, the translation of "lue" is now and forevermore "lue", everywhere. The hat has spoken! (er... the lue has spoken?)