derogatory term has only crept in in the last few years (see pizza's post),but pants has ALWAYS meant underpants in this country as far as I know. I've never in my 32 years known anyone in the uk use the term to mean trousers... any use of 'pants' to indicate trousers is likely a side-effect of consumiong too much imported US telly.
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chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist,
Sun 14 Apr 2002, 18:22,
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where are you from??until a few years ago i never knew you posh people called your underpants pants. it's very odd. pants will always be trousers as far as i'm concerned.
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Sun 14 Apr 2002, 21:27,
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