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| A guy in a tux at Oceanside Beach. I still worry if I was sneaky enough when I took this picture. |
Pants, Trousers
Pants is a colloquial shortening of the old-fashioned word pantaloons, which is now used only in a humorous sense. The current and proper word for the lower part of a man's apparel is trousers. Pants, like movies, is a very popular word in current speech. It is modified to panties in speaking of a particular item of feminine lingerie.
From page 93 of How To Write and Speak Effective English
By Edward Frank Allen
Published in 1938
2 comments:
FYI: Steven will tell you that he wears trousers. tehehehe.
You have no idea how embarrassed we were as missionaries to hand out church pamphlets that told people to wear "nice pants" to church. Thankfully, they made European English versions not too long after.
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