"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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> "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message
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> > "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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> > > "Jamie" <jamie@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> > > > <snip>
> > > > どうもすみません　for the gibberish earlier...
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What's the Japanese for tinfoil hat?
> > > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > and will try again to answer this:
> > > >
> > > > チンフォル　ハット。
> > > >
> > > > would be my guess...
> > > >
> > > > ジェイミー
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tinfoil hat should be アルミホイル　帽子
> >
> > Unless it is actually made of tin, in which case it would be スズホイル
帽
> 子
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> This is true. But isn't all "tinfoil" today "aluminum foil"?
> Perhaps similar to how a "can" is still called "tin" in the UK?

I'm not sure what those freaks make their headgear out of but tinfoil can
also be made out of a tin-lead alloy, at least according to Merriam-Webster.
But you're correct in that 99% of the time when people use the household
term "tinfoil" they are referring to aluminum foil. I was just being
facetious anyway.

Jeff