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?

And the stockings that don't go to your waist are either thigh-highs or knee highs

(If memory serves) Australians use stockings in the UK sense, pantyhose in the US sense and tights are the thicker, wintery ones. Pants are trousers and underwear is knickers or undies.

I vaguely recall my grandmother talking about 'nylons', which sounds extremely old fashioned!

Oh, and aren't knickers in America those trousers that stop below the knee? Knickerbockers?

"Do people wear liners every day?
I haven't used one since I was young enough to have such light periods it was all I needed 😩
Wearing them every day must be expensive. And quite bad for the environment."

Women aren't wearing them for fun, there is a reason for them being needed. That discussion has been done to death on here. The Women who need to wear them because of their wetness levels would be changing their underwear, throughout the day and sometimes their clothes if they didn't wear them.

Some Women use them as a light incontinence pad. We don't all have washing and drying facilities to use reusable pads.

The word 'panties' is just about acceptable when said by an American. And only just.

But the only type of British man I can imagine saying panties is someone like Jim from Friday Night Dinner.

The only people I know who say nylons are from the Midwest. I don't think pantyhose is a just a Southern term although I did discover that the man who invented them did so in North Carolina.

And, yes, knickers in the US means trousers that go below the knee. Like golfers sometimes wear. Short for knickerbockers.

@BeachyKeen said it right. It's just what they're called.

@SenecaFalls RIP Payne Stewart, he managed to actually make knickers look fashionable.

Yes, add "nappies" to the twee list. Also biccie.

Holibobs.
Niggles.
Hubby.

I am sitting at my daughter's bedside in the hospital while she has an extended video EEG test.

Video. With audio recording.

The room is silent, and I have been trying my best to stifle my laughter at some of your alternative names.

The poor sod who has to interpret these recordings is going to wonder if they have the wrong patient with all the snorting and random noise coming from off-camera.

Gee, thanks.

I'm not actually sure. I've only ever seen knee highs, hold ups and stockings (occasionally called pantyhose). Tights are almost always thick and footless here. There is one company that make woollen/opaques called tights and these have feet.

Oh - that is another one MiddleClass !

Suspenders... In Canada, only gentlemen not of the Monty Python Lumberjack perauasion wear them

And to hold up your hose, you need a garter belt.

we have compromised on using the term underwear, which covers both sexes and all varieties

We call boys underwear knickers and girls pants.

I wear a Tena lady when I do aerobics as some of the high impact stuff is too much for my bladder. I wear one when running just in case really as I actually rarely have a problem then. Before you say "do your pelvic floor exercises" - I do. It's just that I have severe endometriosis all around my bladder and bowel.

Washable pads! Wear them every day. Makes life much more comfortable, and no environment issues.

Big favorite of mine seen on a handwritten sign in NY, in a Korean deli/convenience store - "panty ho's".

"The only people I know who say nylons are from the Midwest."
I'm in the Pacific Northwest and it's nylons here as well, although the word pantyhose wouldn't cause confusion.

There's an episode of the Canadian TV series Republic of Doyle where the main character complains that he hates the word "panties" and his dad starts repeating it as often and annoyingly as possible - as a result, I can't quite read the word without imagining it in his voice. It makes it a lot better word, in general.

"Knickers" in UK parlance used to include shorts. There is a famous court case Re Gwyon [1930] 1 Ch 255 concerning a charitable fund to provide "knickers" to all boys in a particular parish.

"Knickers" is probably a diminutive of the ridiculous word "knickerbocker".

I'm watching The Good Place and they have just had a miscommunication about suspenders American to Brit 😂

Thank you for explaining Birdsgottafly.

I do.

Am I a bad feminist?

I suspect it has more to do with morphology than any derogatory notions of feminine products.

Long vowel sounds moving into alveolar lateral approximant (/l/) are commonplace.

No patriarchal conspiracy here OP.

I think pantie is creepy because it reminds me of some old geezer panting and wheezing over some young lovely's knickers.

The inimitable Payne Stewart in his famous knickers with his signature swing. As Hearts said, RIP.

Pants and pantyliners here.
Both said with a straight face.

1950s England women wore stockings with a suspender belt; as most stockings were by then made from nylon, the term 'nylons' was dying out. Tights came in in the early 60s.
Some men had suspenders to hold their socks up. Braces held their trousers up. A brace was worn to straighten teeth.
Surely 'underwear' comprises knickers, vest, bra, slip etc.
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