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# they look like trousers to me.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:29, archived)
# They would, you crazy Brit!
In America, we call the outerwear 'pants', and the other 'underwear'.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:31, archived)
# What about trousers?
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:33, archived)
# That's what old people call 'pants'
My father calls jeans 'dungarees'.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:35, archived)
# No, dungarees
are a particularly unattractive, all in one form of clothing, which are like a pair of jeans that don't know where to stop and come right up over the shoulders and hook up at the front. I hated the ones I had as a kid and did my best to not wear them. They are generaly associated with lesbianism.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:39, archived)
# Ah!
we call those 'overalls'.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:46, archived)
# 'deezilfwoggers'
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:36, archived)
# you see, in britain, we all know that anyway.
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:41, archived)
# Likewise, sir
so to put both is like putting both metric and empirical mesaurements. Sure, it's polite, but is it necessary in casual conversation?
(, Sun 26 Dec 2004, 4:47, archived)