Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
People can say that that word has spread world-wide, but if Americans and Kiwis and Aussies and Brits don't know what touque means, that claim has little validity. As I said, we had a group of all of the above talking about it at Disneyland and no one but the Canadians had ever heard of touque.
Yet I have personally seen "touques" (or "toques" or "tucques"...) for sale in England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and South Africa, as well as in New York City (if no where else in the USA), whch does give some validity to the claim. The shop owners might well have been Canadians in all cases, for all I know, but any buyers would likewise have learned the term.