Sweaters

[Aaron E. Drews]

Hello All,

I've enclosed a picture of an item of clothing.  What I'm wondering is:
would anybody call this item of clothing a sweatshirt?  If you don't call it
a sweatshirt, do you think younger people do, or your colleagues and peers?

The reason I ask is because I'm noticing quite a few people calling this a
sweatshirt in my data, where I would expect either sweater or jumper.  What
I want to know is if "sweatshirt" is a legitimate variant in any variety of
American English, or if my subjects are finding a way of avoiding having to
say either sweater or jumper, or if my subjects just plain can't tell the
difference from this picture.

Thanks for any help!

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

 "MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF"
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