Pants!

sugarbuttie
sugarbuttie Member Posts: 225
edited 9. May 2012, 15:10 in Community Chit-chat archive
I got laughed at today by a new lady at work who is from 'Dahn Sarf' (down south). I said I had bought a new pair of pants & she was at a complete loss as to why I would be telling her this.

Turns out that a 'pair of pants' means 'underwear' south of these parts, where as I was telling her I had bought a new pair of TROUSERS!

What do you think 'a new pair of pants' means????

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  • Numptydumpty
    Numptydumpty Member Posts: 6,417
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Pants are boys knickers.
    I'm a Northamptonshire girl, living in Lincolnshire.
    All the best,
    Numpty
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Boys wear pants, girls wear knickers and both genders wear trousers. The term 'pants' for trousers was, I thought, exclusively an American thing. If someone says pants to me I think underwear, I don't think trousers but if that someone is American then I do know what they mean. DD

    PS Amercians wear suspenders to hold up their pants. :shock: I must admit I adore the mental image that proffers!
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • Numptydumpty
    Numptydumpty Member Posts: 6,417
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Like it DD, like it. That image has set me up for the day!
    Numpty
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Underwear. :wink:

    Elna
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Knickers. Mig
  • freesia
    freesia Member Posts: 409
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    pants / drawers / knickers - all the same thing to me...

    Trousers are trousers... :lol:
    hugs freesia xxx
  • ichabod6
    ichabod6 Member Posts: 843
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I remember the times when most ladies mostly wore
    skirts.
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    skirts is that not a swear word ?????.
    coming from down south pants are underwear for boys.
    but do tend to pay attention to context of things these days with so much american slang getting in speach these days val
    val
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,353
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    pants is boys chundies... :?

    surely??

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