Sweaters

[Aaron E. Drews]

> I would call it a sweater, "sweatshirt" wouldn't even occur to me.
>
> Many English folk would call it a jumper, some might term it a gansey,
guernsey,
> or jersey, though.
>

I find it interesting that all of the names are islands in the Channel.

Anyway, thank you everybody for answering my question.  Now I know how to
count my informants "sweatshirt" responses.

Cheers,
Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron      Departments of English Language and
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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