Hah. Yeah. I was told by one hairdresser when I was a teen that I had five. She made a big deal out of it. The same lady also told me that she knew women who would kill to have hair like mine… That’s what you need to be telling a sexually confused thirteen-year-old boy. Thanks so much.
What it meant for me was that they never cooperated and my hair stuck out no matter how much I tried to fix it. As I’ve aged, two were lost to my receding hairline. Good riddance, you bastards!
I’m not familiar with Japanese etymology but I’m guessing it may share a common root with “tsunami”?
Mine are all in back on top, like a line of whorls, and it just means that I always have “bed hair”…
I was also told that I had a double crown. The crown of one’s hair is the (UK) English equivalent of the Japanese whorl, I believe.
I haven’t read that, but my son owns it. I hear it’s good.
Called a cowlick here in Ontario as well.
Somehow I just didn’t see that…
So, betting I can identify to the Australian Air Security people as a gastromathematician and get some kind of weird pass…that only goes to Surrey or Tasmania.
Leia, Is that you?
(ETA quote… always forgetting to do that!!!)
Hong Kong has another er, thing, on these. If a child has what I guess is called a double whorl, if you look some people have a single point of spiral, some people have a double centre, that child is supposed to be more mischievous.
I wouldn’t say good, but if I have a bad case of constipation a round of diarrehea at least solves that problem,…
Typically we use the term cowlick to refer to hair that grows in a vertical fashion or opposite direction as the hair surrounding it. Typically at the front or rear hairline. A rooster tail is similar except it is usually focused on the hair on your crown (where all your hair parts from on top of your head). And a whorl is just an area of hair that spirals, good or bad. At least that’s how everyone I know defines them
I had friends that had two whorls on the crown of their head, wonder how common that is
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