"hood" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun meaning a neighbourhood or as a shortened form of "neighborhood", or as a suffix denoting a related group or timeframe, such as "teenhood". For example, you could write the sentence "Helen's childhood was spent in the friendly hood of Morton Grove."
The suspected thief is described as being white, 6ft tall, between 30 and 40 years old, of medium build, had a dark brown beard, wore a light grey hooded top with the hood pulled over his head, light blue jeans and black boot style training shoes.
Ignoring the no-doubt terrible magic under the hood that makes this possible, I challenge it to create sorbet from scratch in an hour.
But before all that, in the early 1960s, Prexy Nesbitt was just another young black man thrown over the hood of his car by one of Chicago's notoriously brutal police.
Immediately, he was plastered over the papers, painted as an arrogant and nihilistic street hood - another symbol of the crisis in Britain's black community.
Islam, who arrives at our shoot in a very nice Ralph Lauren suit, once did a piece to camera at Channel 4 wearing a hoodie, "which I thought you couldn't see, but you could – the hood kept sticking up.
The hardcore American myths of fighting rivals, making it and escaping the hood mingle with the swagger, anxiety and wariness of an English black man born in broken Peckham in the early 1980s, raised by a feisty single mum, a father himself at 21, who ended up spending two years in jail on gun charges, numbly emerging in 2005 with a plan to better himself.
And look, here I was, just days into a rudimentary simulacrum of daddy-hood and already fuming.
The dense cover of thorns also makes it an excellent nesting and roosting cover for small birds(particularly good if you have bad cats in your 'hood).
Professor Bruce Hood, a developmental psychologist at the University of Bristol, doesn't think so.
But there were also humorous rhymes and couplets, many by authors like Thomas Hood, Charles H Ross and Ernest Warren, all well known journalists, writers and poets.
The Tobin Tax, named after the American economist who first suggested the idea, is now rebranded the Robin Hood tax.
