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!

I'd call them underwear.
I guess other words.... panties, boxers, trunks, undies, thongs (for thong like underwear)....

worse is " a trouser"

But Star, as I understand it you were right either way - women's pants are a relatively newfangled invention.

And then again, trying to remember what old novel I read recently to DD wherein the boys wore 'knickers' ie knickerbockers....

I was with my v fashiony friend today she says a trouser a jean and now a legging.She started with a boot and just kept going!

StarExpat, which bit of the U.S. are you from? Can assure you the use of fanny to mean bum was rife in rural Illinois where my mom grew up.

weird about making it singular...

Grimma - yes, it did make sense. But the giggles from the 7 year olds...
And the very conservative headteacher was wondering why on earth I had decided to mention that women didn't wear them in a demo lesson. I was very as I didn't mean that at all.

I only started doing the singular thing when I started working in fashion. Before that I said boots, shoes etc like a normal person.

Now I'm a fashanker

lol at 'a' leggings

if you're posh enough to say trouser, what are you doing even thinking about leggings!?

Leonied, my mom says 'slacks'

We also had to remind her several times about loudly talking about 'fanny packs' while she was here.

My DD

My dp says pants instead of trousers - causes no end of confusion. He's from the west coast of Cumbria.

To me trousers are trousers.
Pants are knickers.

My parents have an elaborate vocab when it comes to trousers and say slacks for smart trousers, pants for casual trousers like jeans or for a suit trouser then 'trouser pants'.

Not a leggingS a legging!As in that would look great with a black legging!

can the same be said for jeggings, then?

the patent boots looks quite de rigeur with the neon jegging

I heard someone saying about a party frock): "Team it with an opague tight" !

I barely got away with hiding my chortles (note: no use of the singular 'chortle' here, no siree)

I'm with hoho here - it's 'slacks' or possibly even 'strides' in this house. Or 'trews' when occasion calls

The patent boot not boots

ooh, yes noddy I allowed an 's' to slip in there

pants are trews
grundies /gruds/thunderpants = underpants
snickers = knickers

kecks = undies or knickers

I call pants (as in underwear) pants, but also sometimes refer to trousers as pants, but that's because my ex was from NZ and he called trousers pants.

Yanknchristmascrackers - the northeast but I'm inclined to think "fanny" is either a "southern" or and older generation term? Not sure... It does sound like something a drawling southerner would say... but I've also heard it from older people. No idea. I have never used it. Would feel weird doing so.

I call trousers - pants, and call underwear - knickers, undies. I am from Lancashire.

Trousers are pants
Underwear id knickers or undies

I've always called them pants & knickers. We didn't have five us when I was growing up. We only had 3 channels for most of my formative years so can't blame the americans

I'm in Manchester