Are we really still calling them

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"Pantyliners"?!

Wtf - Panties?

Who says that? What is that?

Something American teenagers and coy older ladies say?

Pollyflint that's exactly my issue

It's so prissy

Makes me cringe

I just glanced at the box and actually thought about it for a minute and was like, what the hell?

Knicker stickers made me laugh!

Seatoski I also used to live in the US and could definitely never have brought myself to say it

Tights in America are called pantyhose.

Tights and pantyhose are two different things. Pantyhose are sheer, tights are thicker and made to be worn in the winter.

I have never heard an American use the word tights

So what do you propose they should be renamed to then OP?

If you have such an objection, come up with some other name ...

Until then people will continue to refer to pantyliners as just that as that's what they are - liners for your pants!

Stocking or pantyhose

So pantliners then
What's the need for the Y?

I don't think I've ever called them anything, who ever actually talks about pantyliners?

Exactly. I can't think I've ever used or mentioned them in my life. I'd probably just say pantyliners if I did. It's a silly word but I literally don't care 😂😂
It the same with all the vulva/vagina angst on Mumsnet. I'm not at all embarrassed to talk about these things but I can't think I've ever once needed to refer to my vulva or vagina. Not even when I had a batholin cyst. I just told the Doctor that I think I might have a batholin cyst 🤷🏻‍♀️ As I expected he knew where it was. 😉

Tights and pantyhose are two different things. Pantyhose are sheer, tights are thicker and made to be worn in the winter.

Yes steff13 in America they're different. But in England they're not different - that was my point!

We call the thick ones and the sheer ones tights. The word 'pantyhose' isn't used in British English at all. In England if you buy a pair of what Americans call 'pantyhose' it will say 'tights' on the box.

I have never heard an American use the word tights.

Well, I don't know what to tell you about that.

Zen, the vulva/vagina thing comes in when talking to your DDs. I wrongly educated mine (when they asked) that their privates were their vaginas. And apparently (according to mumsnet) I've done something absolutely terrible....

"pantyhose" always makes me think Pretty Woman!

When my US friend talks about tights, she means what I'd call leggings. Can tights in the US have feet??

Yes, they do. I posted a picture. Tights usually have feet. What we call leggings are more like what you buy from LulaRoe.

I'm gonna add to the 'I say fanny pads' list.

I have teen boys and long ago changed my description of my knickers to pants. It just seems bizarre to have Daddy's pants, Annunzio's pants, Sixtus' pants and Mummy's knickers.

It wasn't any misplaced embarrassment but it just seemed odd to teach a baby that these were different things when they did the same job.

If I were on-line shopping I might mention "I'm buying some new knickers" but I'm more likely to say 'oy, Sixtus, please put the laundry away, and make sure you put Mum and Dad's pants in the right drawers'.

Was it Jo Brand who called them fairy hammocks?

4sausages There was a thread on here once where someone was incredibly humourless and stroppy about people using slang words like fanny and willy and said everyone should ONLY use the anatomically correct words for body parts in their kids' presence, EVER and that if they ever used any other words they were terrible parents.

Someone chipped in with "So, when your toddler needs help on the potty does she have to say 'Mummy, I've done some faeces, please wipe my anus?""

It says pantyliners on the box. Why would you decide to rename them? its not really a big deal

Pantiliners are the tiddly, do fuck all things, some ladies like to wear when they have a little discharge,but not an actual period.

Perfectly fine description, as long as it is not being used instead of pad, actual period products!

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There's a proper English language reason that they're called pantyliners. When I'm not shattered and on painkillers I'll come back and write it out.

I find knickers a horrible (and funny ) word and tbh I don't know anyone who uses it in real life.

Maybe it's a regional thing? I'm in Scotland.

I call them fanny pads too