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What do you call your underwear?

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:26

We say pants, for boys' and girls', but confusingly I find myself calling ds's "pantie pants" just because everything ends up having an "ie" on the end of it.

Do you wear pants, or knickers? Or something else?

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tortoise · 04/08/2006 21:27

Pants for the boys
Knickers(knick knicks by dd1!) for girls.

Bozza · 04/08/2006 21:27

DH - boxers (but I sometimes call them underpants to annoy him)
me - knickeres
DS - pants
DD - pants, sometimes knickers

Generically we might use pants for anybody.

hulababy · 04/08/2006 21:27

Pants

TambaIsBadBadBad · 04/08/2006 21:28

I wear knickers
the boys wear pants

DS1 thinks bras are called knickers though so gets confusing.

Cappucino · 04/08/2006 21:28

pants or knickers

alarmingly, this even applies to dh

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:28

"Generically we might use pants for anybody."

is making me larf for some reason

did you mean to put "knickeres", Bozza? I doubt it which is a shame. It sounds very flamboyant.

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mustrunmore · 04/08/2006 21:29

Me... knickers
ds1... knickers
dh... daddy's knickers, but boxers if no ds1 listening, and dh calls them underpants (yuck).

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:30

I am hoping to uncover a new MN word for pants along the lines of "norks" or "fanjo", tbh. However so far I am just relieved you are not all saying "fanny wrappers" or something.

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Posey · 04/08/2006 21:30

The boys always wear "pants", me and dd wear "pants" or "knickers"

Gobbledigook · 04/08/2006 21:31

Boys - pants/underpants
Me - knickers
Dh - boxers

Bozza · 04/08/2006 21:32

No I didn't mean to put the extra 'e' - obviously a combination of a day out in the sun and a couple of glasses of wine is taking its toll.

By the generic thing - I meant if I had a basketful of mixed underwear I would just say "it's pants and socks" - or if we were going somewhere "we need to take clean pants", that sort of thing.

PiccadillyCircus · 04/08/2006 21:34

Everyone here wears pants. Except DD (who wears a nappy )

Mercy · 04/08/2006 21:38

dd and I wear knickers, dh wears boxers or shorts (ds still wears nappies).

dh gets confused because he still sometimes says pants to mean trousers.

expatinscotland · 04/08/2006 21:38

knickers.

dh says he wears boxers.

imaginaryfriend · 04/08/2006 21:39

knickers for me and dd
pants for dp

... Do you wear Franny-wrappers?

Gobbledigook · 04/08/2006 21:39

PC - even ds3 calls his nappy 'pants' - he wears pull ups

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FrannyandZooey · 04/08/2006 21:41

Well we are all quite dull aren't we? A rogue 'e' has added the only frisson of excitement so far

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noddyholder · 04/08/2006 21:41

boxers for boys knickers for girls

PiccadillyCircus · 04/08/2006 21:41

Actually, DS's night time pants are pullups (but they wouldn't be called nappies ).

DD is a little young to be calling her nappies anything just yet .

Californifrau · 04/08/2006 21:58

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MrsSpoon · 04/08/2006 22:00

Me - Knickers
DH - Punders
DSs - Pants

Norah · 04/08/2006 22:02

Me and dd wear pants, dh wears grundies or sometimes grits ! I don't know why - boarding school ??

wheresmyfroggy · 04/08/2006 22:03

A friend of mine from Aberdeen calls them "skunts" he claims it is local dialect but i am not so sure.

MrsJohnCusack · 04/08/2006 22:06

Me - Pants
DH - kecks
DD - nappies

MrsSpoon · 04/08/2006 22:07

LOL wheresmyfroggy, skants is another common one in Scotland.

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