To think that women's knickers are not called pants?

[Anonimousy]

This really annoys me and I can't work out why.

On a slightly different note...slacks, urgh that word makes me hurl

Smalls?

Or is everyone too large now?

Call them pantaloons.

Where I come from (not America) pants are trousers.

Mine are called pants, and are all black. Can't abide pink. Can't abide the word panties. Can't take the word knickers seriously. YABU.

Household of three females here and we all wear pants. Never say knickers. It sounds too try hard to my ears

I'm from the north east. Pants are for boys and knickers girls or drawers instead of knickers.

I always thought pants were American until I moved to merseyside . I still live locally but insist on calling them trousers. And refuse tp use the term lolly ice for ice lolly.

Also from the north. Always knickers, pants are trousers in this household! No longer in the north though and as my DC say pants for trousers I'm sure they are gunna have confusion at school

Dusky no way you could call my undergarments "lingerie"

I like bloomers. Good solid description, that. Knickers sounds a bit twee and coy to me. I can only say "pants" in a northern accent. I'm not northern. God knows why

Knickers, definitely - mine are all small & frilly

Pants are for men, although DS & DH tend to call them "boxers" because they are

Brought up in the SW of England. Never used the word knickers. Only pants/underpants.

What are French knickers, btw? A school friend used to say they were ordinary knickers with a hole in the crotch area for instant access

I think it does depend of where you are from. In SA, pants are trousers. Palazzo pants for eg, they are aren't called palazzo trousers now are they

In our house the boys have jocks. The girls have underwear, undies, panties, or broeks (i see brooks was referred to upthread, wondering if that poster is from SA). Knickers are a comical term for underwear.

In flemish/dutch they are called onderbroek, literally undertrousers.

Yes, in Afrikaans also they are onderbroek. That's is where broeks come from. Or if you are a small child, they will be broekies...

Pants here for everyone, male or female, adult or child.

Unless I wind DD up by calling them drawers.

Although I can remember Mum also using knickers for girls' pants. She caused hysterical laughter one morning by calling to us to bring our "six and knockers" out for the wash!

French knickers are like little shirts, often in a satin or silky material. There isn't an instant access hole. That's your friend not knowing what they a and using her imagination, assuming anything French must be filthy.

Shorts, not shirts, ffs

Knickers, knackers, knockers!

Knickers is mostly a comedy term, used in phrases like 'don't get your knickers in a twist'. Also used more by old people

I have always worn pants. The sensible, cotton sort of undergarment. Perhaps if they were small and lacy I'd want another word.

Girls and boys at my infant school did PE in 'vests and pants'.

I've always heard underpants as 'pants that go underneath' not 'things that go beneath pants'.

How do yo say pants in a northern accent?

People in the south don't say 'parnts'. (Which actually is a bit strange - 'Carnt', 'slarnt', 'sharnt' but not 'parnt'.)

Kecks
Trolleys
Pants
Undercrackers

Undies or grundies... But I grew up in Australia. Living in Ireland now they seem to call them knickers mostly which makes me a bit cringey for some reason

undies and knicks here

Knickers here. For both me and OH.

My holiday packing list will say nix and sox because that makes me smile.