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Originally Posted by Firegazer
By all means call a sofa a couch, but calling trousers pants when pants mean underwear is all very confusing!  |
In fairness across the english speaking world there are more people that identify pants as meaning trousers than underwear. I think it's specifically a UK thing to use it for underwear. Even in Ireland pants is an either/or thing rather than being one or the other.
I mean, look at what a google image search for pants turns up