OK, so who calls trousers "pants"?

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Quick poll, just a-wondering who calls trousers "pants"?
To me, pants are what some might call knickers and trousers are trousers.
I'm northern btw in case anyone says it's just a northern thing!

My DH (brummy) calls them pants. I find it irritating because it's as if he's trying to be American.

Trousers are no more pants than bums are fannies iyswim.

To me they'll always be slacks.

pants in an american thing. any british person who says it has been watching too much five us

slacks is funny word.

slacks makes me think of men in pink golf jumpers

yes in stay press polyester

I call them pantaloons of course. Not pants though.

A pant is what makes me laugh, as in 'teamed with a red pant' - like 'a shoe, a boot - hell even a 'clutch' or a trench(what happened to a clutch BAG or a trench COAT).

Sorry total hijack rant!!!

In answer to your question no- I say a trouser- only joking, its a pair of trousers for me if you will!!

Americans?

only Americans surely!?

I'm in Ireland, and trousers are trousers. Pants are like ugly knickers! Slacks are for old men who think they are David Niven.

Me. I say pants (but only when talking about casual e.g. tracksuit pants - formal pants are def trousers). The little things underneath are called underpants, which surely should avoid any confusion.

americans

DH was once quite puzzled by a female US colleague talking about her leather pants and vest

aussies too, I always said pants until I came to these shores

Now I say - sorry whelk - a pant, or a trouser

the ones underneath are knickers, daks or undies

Pants are undergarments in this house.

I'm american. I remember teaching a group of british children (in a demo lesson) about victorian times about 5 years ago, when I was new to the UK and informing them that "most women did not wear pants" in Victorian times. The headteacher had a look on her face wondering why on earth I would mention something like that... . Of course, I meant that they wore dresses, not "trousers".

Definitely an Australian thing as well...I am getting much better about saying trousers after numerous embarrassing incidents concerning "pants" not to mention "thongs".

thongs, god yes! too many embarrassing incidents to mention...

So if trousers are pants - what do you call pants?

as above - knickers, daks or undies

btw I've never in my whole life, grew up in America and lived there for 25 years... never used the word "fanny" for bum. I'm not sure who does use it. I know they use it for a "fanny pack" that thing that goes around your waist... but I would not refer to someone's bum as a fanny. It's a weird word!! No one in my family uses it, either.

Pants for trousers is used in NZ too. My mother used to call pants (ie knickers) "panties" which makes me want to curl up and die. Men's nether garmets were called undies.

Pants are the underclothing that DH keeps his unmentionables in.

The trousers go over the top, so as to ensure plenty of layers over aforesaid unmentionables.

They got out once and gace me a right turn I can tell you.