Aren't they called corn rows?
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praisedancer
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They're actually spelled cornrows. Lots of people make the mistake, I just excuse it.
longhairdreamzz
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Yep you're correct, they're called cornrows....I really don't know the reason for the name changes.
LadyEuphoria007
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I call them cornrows but I think the term "cainrow" came from other regions. I just excuse the term cornROLL b/c it just sounds funny. lol
Miss*Tress
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The expression, cane rows (as in rows of sugar cane) comes from the Caribbean. Cain row is a misspelling.
TowsonGirl
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I always called them french braids, they are actually the same just underbraided... I think
Anyway I just like the way french braid sounds
Quick Question: So if you call cornrows french braids, what do you call french braids? Do you refer to them as one in the same?
TO answer the OP: they are called corn rows, just like every body else said. It sorta gets me when ppl say Corn "Rolls"
santwon
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Yeah I thought that too.
LadyKaypnyc
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Um....I'm 100% sure they are called cornROWS
Never heard anyone refer to them as canerows...ya learn something everyday
Never heard anyone refer to them as canerows...ya learn something everyday
Lovie
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I'm trying to think if I ever read in a magazine such as In Style, or Cosmopolitan, that Alicia Keys had those stylish "cornrows". As I think of it, I'm pretty sure each time I read something about her hair (which wasn't often) they referred to her hair as "braids".
Another term..
My grandma called them plaits. (pronounced pl-at-s) Not sure if I'm spelling it right, or even where or how that term came about. Thats just what gramma called 'em.
Another term..
My grandma called them plaits. (pronounced pl-at-s) Not sure if I'm spelling it right, or even where or how that term came about. Thats just what gramma called 'em.
LadyEuphoria007
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A french braid as I know it, is the one long braid with all your hair down the center of your head...like this. As far as I know they can be either "over or under" braided.
![french_braid_for_long_hair_3[1].jpg](https://longhaircareforums.com/data/attachments/7/7760-dc3f1e8923bc09bf9e5325a282cddb42.jpg?hash=3D8eiSO8Cb "french_braid_for_long_hair_3[1].jpg")
ladylibra
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i think cornrows are actually like dutch braids. and all a dutch braid is (from what i know) is an underhand french braid.
french braid:
dutch braid:
whereas you usually only have 1 or 2 dutch braids on your head, cornrows are just a bunch of small flat braids on your head. you have to have a bunch so it looks like actual rows... so techincally one could do a bunch of overhand french braids and call them cornrows i guess.
moonglowdiva
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I guess it all depends on where you are in the world. I don't think it should really matter what they're call. Where I live it's called french braiding, but it's all the same.
ShiShiPooPoo
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Yeah...cornrows.
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Forever in Bloom
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I've always known them to be cornrows - that makes sense; they resemble rows of corn. I wonder what a corn roll tastes like? 
Mook's hair
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This is a fun thread... I also see the UK ladies using the term Canerows.
A french braid does not have to be just one single braid. It is the style of braiding where the hair is picked up over the braid whereas cornrows the hair is picked up under the braid.
A french braid does not have to be just one single braid. It is the style of braiding where the hair is picked up over the braid whereas cornrows the hair is picked up under the braid.
winnettag
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I've always known them to be cornrows - that makes sense; they resemble rows of corn. I wonder what a corn roll tastes like?
cutiebe2
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I'm trying to think if I ever read in a magazine such as In Style, or Cosmopolitan, that Alicia Keys had those stylish "cornrows". As I think of it, I'm pretty sure each time I read something about her hair (which wasn't often) they referred to her hair as "braids".
Another term..
My grandma called them plaits. (pronounced pl-at-s) Not sure if I'm spelling it right, or even where or how that term came about. Thats just what gramma called 'em.
see in my family (West Indian) there are cornrow/canerow and then plaits. Plaits are individual braids. They way my mother does them they look like triangles, but I don't know if that is just her. You say "plait up the hair" when you want to put medium individual braids in them
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Sunrise
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Like some of the girls mentioned on in this thread, it's a West Indian term which is either pasted down through generations or, just acquired (if family is not from the West Indies). and used over here.
Every now and then, someone will throw in "Cornrow" into the conversation, which I will correct them "No sah, ah CANEROW!"
Marand13
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Quick Question: So if you call cornrows french braids, what do you call french braids? Do you refer to them as one in the same?
TO answer the OP: they are called corn rows, just like every body else said. It sorta gets me when ppl say Corn "Rolls"
To me they are the same... Just under or over braided
"Cornrow", correct
"Cain row" or "cainrow", incorrect spelling
"canerow", correct spelling, Carrib. origin
"corn rolls" or "cornrolls", incorrect spelling, a bad case of inarticulacy
I agree with this post and i have always called them Canerow's.
Cornrow's sounds strange to me as i'm in the UK and have Caribbean heritage.
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