Re: USAGE: Language revival

At 9:04 pm -0500 1/12/99, Nik Taylor wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
>> "Undershirt", I think.
>
>I've certainly never heard of an "undervest".  What is a British "vest"?
You wear it under your shirt when the weather's cold  :)

I confess I am not au fait with US clothing terminology. I do know that our
pants become underpants over there - that's probably why I got *undervest
wrong   :=(

Acyually the term 'underpants' is more & more often used here - but we
still wear trousers (or jeans) on the outside  :)

But I don't think I can face a long thread on clothing terminology  ;)

Ray.

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