"PlaidPooka" > wrote in message
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> Charles Gifford Wrote:
> > "Bob (this one)" wrote
> >
> >
> > I'm just speculating idly here, so feel free to cut my hawsers. The
> > OED
> > won't be of much help here I think. An American food with a borrowed
> > name
> > not in use in America. Why? Dunno really. It works though. Unlike the
> > American use of pants when they mean trousers.
> >
> > Charlie
>
> How do you know we mean trousers? For all you know, we're all running
> about in our shreddies...
>
>
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> PlaidPooka

In my part of this thread I was referring to the odd use of language by
Americans. Your response was humorous though!

Charlie