Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Query for Our English Friends

This one's for Tony and Will and whoever is in Leeds who comes by all the time (hi!):

Trousers are for wearing out of the house.
Pants = underpants.

What about pajama pants? Are they "pants" or "trousers"? I feel silly saying to Iain, "put on your trousers" when they're polyester pajamas with little bugs on them. But they're not undies, so....

Assistance please, English folk.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

From Will: The whole thing is pajamas, but if you want to differentiate, you would say pajama tops and pajamas bottoms. But really all you would say is put on "your pajamas!"

Bart said...

What, don't I count? Honestly, just because I wasn't born here...

;¬)

bugboys69 said...

I would also refer to them as PJ Bottoms.

Now put your Jammies on!!

PS sorry I cut you off last night I was ready for bead. When Bart gets back from his conference we will give you a call. I think we need to hear your voices.

Bart said...

I was going to say 'jim-jam bottoms.'

Had I been asked. Ahem.