Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.
I thought the Brits called them all knickers.
I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."
I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?
Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in
The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.